Juxtapoz 108 (January 2010)

The latest issue of Juxtapoz is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Kehinde Wiley
• Mike Mills
• Jason Jagel
• Yone
• Phunk Studio
• Joshua Davis

Introduction -- Style Sheet -- Collectors -- Profiles -- Showstoppers -- Reviews -- Insider -- Pop Life -- Perspective

Artscape: Anatomy

Artscape: Anatomy is three new DVDs that are now available for loan from the Learning Centre. It is a three-part series that was broadcast on ABC in April 2009.

"Anatomy is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories - Skin, Heart and Muscle - which explore how sexuality and the body work together as driving forces in the creative process.

Episode 1 - Skin
Skin examines the 25-year collaboration between tattooist/artist eX de Medici and her subject Geoff Ostling as they negotiate the possibility of bequeathing Geoff's tattooed skin as an artwork when he dies.

Episode 2 - Heart
Heart looks at the artist/muse relationship between Jacqui Stockdale and Rose Mastroianni.

Episode 3 - Muscle
Muscle is about the relationship between Simon Yates, his partner Jo-Ann Lancaster, and their collaborator Mozes, who perform together (often in the nude) as performance/dance troupe, Acrobat." -- back covers

Luminous

Luminous is a new DVD that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre. It is a recording of a program which was screened on ABC on 27th February 2007.

"Richard Tognetti, Artistic Director of the ACO, had always wanted to collaborate with a visual artist. But which one? He wanted to create a spellbinding event, not just a soundtrack, through the combination of sound and vision. Then he was the work of Bill Henson and Luminous was born." -- back cover

Mask and Memory

Mask and memory: Sidney Nolan is a new DVD that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre. It is a recording of a program that was screened on ABC on 4th June 2009.

"Mask and Memory is a new documentary about the man many regard as the greatest Australian painter of the 20th century - Sidney Nolan. If all art has a biological element, this was dramatically true in Nolan's case. Through interviews with friends, contemporaries and witnesses, producer Catherine Hunter reconstructs the intimate relationships that shaped Nolan's life, the women he loved, and who loved him." -- back cover

Eloquent Nude

Eloquent nude: the love and legacy of Edward Weston and Charis Wilson is a new DVD that is now available from the Learning Centre. It is a recording of a program screened on SBS on 30th May 2009.

"The love and legacy of Edward Weston and Charis Wilson. Charis Wilson, at the age of 91, talks about her relationship and artistic collaboration with the American photographer Edward Weston, as model, muse, lover and writer. Her relationship and subsequent marriage to Weston survived until shortly before his death in 1958." -- back cover

Architectural Design Vol. 79 No. 6 (November/December 2009)

The latest issue of Architectural Design is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Editorial Helen Castle
• Introduction Prologue for a History, Theory and Future of Patterns of Architecture and Spatial Design Mark Garcia
• Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations Alejandro Zaera-Polo
• Parametric Patterns Patrik Schumacher
• Relentless Patterns: The Immersive Interior Mark Taylor
• New Patterns in Urban Design Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall
• Tracing Change: Patterns in Landscape Architecture Simon Swaffield
• Geometry and New Future Spatial Patterns Helmut Pottmann
• Reductive Engineering Patterns: An Interview with Hanif Kara Mark Garcia
• Biometric Patterns in Architectural Design Julian Vincent
• Evolving Patterns: Correlated Systems of Interaction Theodore Spyropoulos
• Patterns in Performance - Oriented Design: An Approach towards Pattern Recognition, Generation and Instrumentalisation Mark Hensel and Achim Menges
• Pattern Deposition: From Scripts to Applications Mike Silver
• Psychology and Perception of Patterns in Architecture Patricia A. Rodemann
• Practice Profile SAI Consultants Brian McGrath
• Interior Eye Hopkins Architects' Kroon Hall, Yale University Jayne Merkel
• Building Profile Norfolk Park Green Homes, Sheffield David Littlefield
• Unit Factor Head Banging: Engineered Neutrality + the Parametric Ceiling Francesca Hughes
• Spiller's Bits Basking in a World of Your Own Making Neil Spiller
• Yeang's Eco-Files Designing for Disassembly (DfD) Elma Durmisevic and Ken Yeang
• Userscape Futuristic Retail Spaces Valentina Croci
• McLean's Nuggets Will McLean

Aperture No. 197 (Winter 2009)

The latest issue of Aperture is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

FEATURES

• Work In Progress Carrie Mae Weems: History and Dreams by A. M. Weaver - Weems's work with photography explores the undercurrents of power.
• Archive Raymond Cauchetier & The French New Wave by Richard Brody - Behind the scenes with Godard, Truffaut, and other auteurs of cinema.
• Essay Children Of The Revolution: Contemporary Iranian Photography by Anthony Downey - A look at recent photography from Iran, three decades after the revolution.
• On Location Urban Archaeology Photographs and commentary by Andrew Moore - The surreal decay of the American city.
• Dialogue Robert Adams: Summer Nighs, Walking Interview with Joshua Chuang - Adams discusses picture editing, the goals of art, and his classic series of nocturnes.
• Mixing the Media The World According to Maira: Maira Kalman's Recent Observations by Francine Prose - The celebrated illustrator plays with photographs in her colorful body of work.
• Dialogue Nick Knight: Showman Interview with Diane Smyth - One of fashion photography's innovators considers his career and process.
• Work and Process Songs Left Out of Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Greil Marcus - Marcus on the sound track of Goldin's seminal slide show

NOTE

CONTRIBUTORS

REVIEWS

• Vicki Goldberg on Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
• Susan Morgan on Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
• James Yood on PhotoDimensional
• Brian Dillon on Roni Horn
• Noemi Smolik on Czech photography
• Brian Sholis on Jochen Lempert

MEDIA WATCH

• Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss: A New Lament

CONFERENCES

• Philip Gefter on two Robert Mapplethorpe symposia

EXCERPTS

BOOKS

• Charles Bowden on Eugene Richards's The Blue Room

MIND'S EYE

• Karen Finley on the "Michelle Look"

Art & Australia Vol. 47 No. 2 (Summer 2009)

The latest issue of Art & Australia is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

*Image courtesy of Art & Australia

Contents:

FORUM

• Contributors
• In-betweenness: The art of Liu Xiao Xian by Claire Roberts
• The party's over, time to do the dishes: Thinking through relational craft by Kevin Murray
• Art as public good: The 4th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 by Zara Stanhope
• An invisible architecture: SANAA and the art of 21st century museum design by D. J. Huppatz
• Crazy with joy: The curatorial vision of Germano Celant by Michael Fitzgerald
• Lucy Orta: The artist as enabler by Nikos Papastergiadis
• Channelling the gaze: The choreographic works of Shelley Lasica by Fiona Hile
• Tributes: Julian Dashper by Robert Leonard; Dr Joseph Brown by Sheridan Palmer

FEATURES

• Reaching for utopia: The 6th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
• The idea of 'Asia' by Brian Castro
• Biennale makers: Hou Hanru and Suhanya Raffel in conversation with Robert Leonard
• House of Magic by Yuko Hasegawa
• One thousand and one nights: The edited images of Shirana Shahbazi Ariella Yedgar
• Revolutionary conservatism: Public art in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by Beth McKillop
• Flexible citizenship: The art of Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan by Lynne Seear
• Oceanic collaborators by Stephen Zagala
• I got urges: The bad boy tribalism of Rohan Wealleans by Emma Bugden

COMMENTARY

• Togart Contemporary Art Award 2009 by Marni Williams
• White Rabbit: Contemporary Chinese Art Collection by Talia Linz

REVIEW

• Floating Life: Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art by Ingrid Periz
• Persuasion Equation by Elizabeth Gertsakis
• Why do we do the things we do by Sally Quin

BOOKS

• I Blame Duchamp reviewed by Peter Hill
• Crackle: Contemporary Art from the Middle of Nowhere reviewed by Anusha Kenny
• Twelve Australian Photo Artists reviewed by Judy Annear
• Mutant Media reviewed by Adam Geczy

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program

• Too Much of Everything at Y3K reviewed by Brooke Babington

ARTIST PAGES

• 'The Shades' by Matt Coyle

ANZ Private Bank and Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award

• Gregor Kregar by Talia Linz

Wallpaper* (December 2009)

The latest issue of Wallpaper* is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

ARCHITECTURE

• Immaculate Concepción Practical makes perfect in Chile for the homes of architectural duo Pezo van Ellrichshausen
• Power house Go with the flow - holiday at a 1960s hydroelectric station in Norway
• King castle Croquet and surrealism at the Upstate New York home of design-art grandee Wendell Castle
• Atlanta raves Life's a beach party at John Portman's remarkable Sea Island house

DESIGN

• Light fantastic We've domesticated the disco - now the coffee table's a dancing cage
• Real deal Konstantin Grcic turns curator to champion the beautifully functional
• Road runner McLaren's trailblazing new supercar is light years ahead of the field

FASHION

• New waves Decked out in the coolest cruise wear, we're yacht to trot aboard Riva's latest launch
• Magic circles Stock piled sparklers live again as Louis Vuitton comes up with a high-jewellery gem
• Game face From diving to driving, men's watches that are ready for anything
• Material girl Bold, brassy and body-con: glamour gets the 1980s touch

FEATURES

• High times Buoyed by a rare growing economy and committed, luxury-loving Paulistas, Brazilian shopping is a whole new mall game

FRONT OF BOOK

• Newspaper* Sound wave-shaped tableware; tempting trench coats; the ultimate coffee kit; Prada's new basics

FOOD

• Roll with it Makes ours a Modern Margarits. Cocktails from the Wallpaper* trolley
• Rocket Yule From snipe on toast to absinthe jelly, chef Mark Hix dishes up a Christmas lunch with a difference
• Artist's palate Coq au vin gains fresh perspective, and plenty of port, with artists Elmgreen & Dragset

INTERIORS

• Come the revolution It's all change at Niemeyer's Communist Party HQ in Paris
• Lay for today Cutlery that cuts a dash at dinner

MEDIA

• Subscriptions Give Wallpaper* to a friend and save more than 50 per cent
• Wallpaper* video Film-makers, it's your chance to call the shots at Wallpaper.com

TRAVEL

• Departure info We're turning Japanese in Paris; roasting down under in Melbourne; and river dancing in Istanbul

RESOURCES

• Stockists What you want and where to get it

Fashion Trends - Forecast (Summer 2011)

The latest issue of Fashion Trends is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Casual deluxe
• Back to the origins
• Sensual feeling
• Crash course
• Bedtime stories
• City elves
• Moderate construction
• The light classics
• Rebel yell

Metropolis (November 2009)

The latest edition of Metropolis has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

FEATURES

The Way Forward by Rick Poynor - Buffeted by criticism from Prince Charles, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners forges ahead with new ideas for old problems.

The New Tools by Suzanne La Barre - Can emerging technologies change the culture of building? When it came time to become a building owner, Autodesk decided to run a few plays from its own digital playbook.

Spirit Of St. Louis by Robert W. Duffy with Martin C. Pedersen - A new sculpture park has not only transformed downtown but lifted the city's sense of itself and its future.

Area Of Influence by Lara Kristin Lentini - After purchasing Edward Fields Carpet Makers, Tai Ping is taking pains to honor the American company's legacy while advancing the brand.

DEPARTMENTS

Metropolismag.com News and exclusive on the Web

Notes from Metropolis Can designers create a desperately needed solution to the problem of e-waste?

Dialogue Readers' letters

Observed

• Beautiful Decay Drawn to its weathered facade, a Toronto couple decides to call a tiny industrial building home.
• Flat-Out Amazing Appearances are deceiving in the backyard of a contemporary-art collector.
• Tribal Plan Holst Architecture shapes new offices to reflect Ziba's unique culture of design.

America / Karrie Jacobs - Once home to flophouses and the Salvation Army, the Bowery becomes a target for development.

In Production Help Remedies' clear instructions and honest materials take the pain out of first-aid products.

Materials Bart Halpern partners with Pulp Studio to create a new application for his signature pleats.

Enterprise / Ken Shulman - To reposition itself, Kimball Office reaches across the ocean for a john of high design.

Productsphere The new generation of office products gives us the technology we need - without flaunting it.

Reference More information on people, places and products covered in this issue of Metropolis

Ben Katchor Total Recall

The Hat Magazine - Issue 43 (Oct/Nov/Dec 2009)

The latest issue of The Hat Magazine is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

NEWS

• Diary
• News and Views

INTERVIEW

• A conversation with Markus Fehr of Seeberger Hats

TRADE FAIRS

• Reports from the shows of s/s 2010
• Designers of Ascot hats in issue 42

RETAIL

• Reports from the shows for s/s 2010

FESTIVALS

• 17th Estivales du Chapeau at Septfonds

COMPETITIONS

• Results of HAT Designer of the Year 2009

IDEAL GIFTS

• Hatty presents for Christmas

FORECAST

• Fabrics and Trimmings for a/w 10/11 - report

THMXs ACCESSORIES

• Bags at Première Classe 1

INSPIRATION

• Designer Sketchbook - Tyres; Textures & Strength
• Workroom Technique - Dyeing with spirit based dyes

European Photography - Number 85/86 (2009)

The latest issue of European Photography is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Zeit für Qualität - Time for Quality European Photography Turns 30, Boris von Brauchitsch
• Akinbode Akinbiyi Ndakaru Blues
• Peter Bialobrzeski Paradise Now
• Diana Blok See Through Us
• Dirk Braeckman Recent
• Mona Breede Russia
• Daniele Buetti Lightboxes
• Edward Burtynsky Silver Lake Operations
• Gregory Crewdson Beneath the Roses
• Thomas Florschuetz Valkyrie
• Gladys Greece
• Jim Goldberg Open See
• John Gossage An Easy Guide to Southern Stars
• John Hilliard Preferred Reading
• Noritoshi Hirakawa An Attribute of Living
• Carl de Keyzer Moments before the Flood
• Mark Klett Charting the Canyon
• Miao Xiaochun Surplus
• Peter Neusser Forest
• Erwin Olaf Grief
• Roger Palmer About Turning
• Max Pam Super Tourist
• Martin Parr Luxury
• Bernard Plossu France
• Ernestine Ruben Dancing Spirits
• Philipp Schloz Rittermann New Development
• Heidi Specker Elsi
• Frank Thiel Curtains
• Norbert Wiesneth Shadow Republic
• Erwin Wurm Japanese Indoor
• Martin Zeller Foodscape

• Art and Publishing Hans-Michael Koetzle in Conversation with Andreas Müller-Pohle

• Paul D. Scott Olympic Cabin Fever
• Charles Fréger Empire
• Michael Najjar High Altitude
• Shigeru Takato Television Studios
• Jürgen Chill Prison Cells
• Zhang Xiao They
• Andreas Machanek Semi-Detached Houses

• "It is flourishing ..." 7 Questions, 119 Answers

Selling Your Photography

Selling your photography: how to make money in new and traditional markets by Richard Weisgrau is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Marketing Opportunities

Chapter 2: Market Overview

Chapter 3: Deciding on a Business Model

Chapter 4: Finding Advertising Clients

Chapter 5: Finding Corporate Clients

Chapter 6: Finding Editorial Clients

Chapter 7: Finding Merchandise Segment Clients

Chapter 8: Marketing Your Photography

Chapter 9: Multiplying Your Results

Chapter 10: Developing Good Business Habits

Chapter 11: Licensing and Pricing

Chapter 12: Jumping the Hurdles

Chapter 13: Resources

Index

Wedding Photography

Wedding photography by Mark Cleghorn is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

Part One

• Chapter 1 Equipment and technique
• Chapter 2 Planning

Part Two

• Chapter 3 Before the ceremony
• Chapter 4 The ceremony
• Chapter 5 Bride and groom portraits
• Chapter 6 The reception

Part Three

• Chapter 7 Post-production
• Chapter 8 Presenting your images

Useful websites -- Glossary -- Index

The Upset

The upset : young contemporary art is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"A fresh breed of contemporary artists is celebrating newfound international recognition in a surprising upset.

Feeding off today's popular culture, they draw influences from comic books, graffiti, street art and character design creating illustrious paintings with distinct artistic composition, employing classical techniques of a master.

The Upset reveals a rich collection of work by these burgeoning artists. In addition to striking visual work, the book features portraits of artists as well as in-depth interviews with selected artists who are creating outstanding cutting-edge contemporary fine art." -- back cover

Seizing The Light

Seizing the light: a social history of photography (2nd edition) by Robert Hirsch is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:
CHAPTER ONE - Advancing toward Photography: The Birth of Modernity

• A Desire for Visual Representation
• Perspective
• Thinking of Photography
• Camera Vision
• The Demand for Picturemaking Systems
• Proto-Photographers: Chemical Action of Light
• Modernity: New Visual Realities
• Optical Devices
• Images through Light: A Struggle for Permanence
• Other Distinct Originators

CHAPTER TWO - The Daguerreotype: Image and Object

• What Is a Daguerreotype?
• The Daguerreotype Comes to America
• The Early Practitioners
• Early Daguerrean Portrait Making
• Technical Improvements
• Expanding U.S. Portrait Studios
• The Art of the Daguerrean Portrait
• Daguerrean Portrait Galleries and Picture Factories
• African-American Operators
• Rural Practice
• Post-Mortem Portraits
• The Daguerreotype and the Landscape
• The Daguerreotype and Science

CHAPTER THREE - Calotype Rising: The Arrival of Photography

• The Calotype
• Early Calotype Activity
• Calotypists Establish a Practice
• Calotype and Architecture: Mission Heliographique
• The End of the Calotype and the Future of Photography

CHAPTER FOUR - Pictures on Glass: The Wet-Plate Process

• The Albumen Process
• The New Transparent Look
• The Ambrotype
• Pictures on Tin
• The Carte-de-Visite and the Photo Album
• The Cabinet Photograph: The Picture Gets Bigger
• The Studio Tradition
• Retouching and Enlargements
• The Stereoscope
• The Stereo Craze

CHAPTER FIVE - Prevailing Events/Picturing Calamity

• Current Events
• Early War Coverage
• The American Civil War
• How Photographs Were Circulated

CHAPTER SIX - A New Medium of Communication

• Photography: Art or Industry?
• Discovering a Photographic Language
• Americans and the Art of Nature
• Positivism

CHAPTER SEVEN - Standardizing the Practice: A Transparent Truth

• Mechanical Photography
• The Traveling Camera
• Picturing Industrialization
• Urban Life
• The American West: The Narrative and the Sublime

CHAPTER EIGHT - New Ways of Visualizing Time and Space

• The Inadequacy of Human Vision
• Locomotion
• Transforming Aesthetics: Technical Breakthroughs
• The Hand-Held Camera and the Snapshot
• Time and Motion as an Extended Continuum
• Moving Pictures
• Color and Photography

CHAPTER NINE - Suggesting the Subject: The Evolution of Pictorialism

• Roots of Pictorialism
• Pictorialism and Naturalism
• The Development of Pictorial Effect
• The Secession Movement and the Rise of Photography Clubs
• The Aesthetic Club Movement
• Working Pictorially: A Variety of Approaches
• American Perspectives
• The Photo-Secession
• The Decadent Movement and Tonalism
• Women Pictorialists
• The Pictorial Epoch/The Stieglitz Group
• The Decline of Pictorialism

CHAPTER TEN - Modernism's Innovations

• Industrial Beauty
• Cubism
• High and Low Art
• Futurism
• Time, Movement, and the Machine
• Towards a Modern Practice: Distilling Form
• Dada
• Exploring Space and Time: The Return of the Photogram
• Surrealism
• Collage
• Suprematism
• Art, Technology, and a New Faith
• Paul Strand and Straight Photography: Purity of Use

CHAPTER ELEVEN - The New Culture of Light

• Teaching Modernism: The American Impulse
• Stieglitz's "Equivalents"
• Steichen Goes Commercial
• Form as Essence
• Straight, Modernistic Photography
• Film und Foto and New Objectivity
• Experimentally Modern
• New Vision
• Pathways of Light: Time, Space, and Form
• Surrealistic Themes

CHAPTER TWELVE - Social Documents

• An American Urge: Social Uplift
• Ethnological Approaches
• Emerging Ethnic Consciousness
• The Physiognomic Approach
• The Great Depression: The Economics of Photography
• The FAP Project: Changing New York
• The Photo Booth: Self-Portraits for All
• Mass Observation
• The Film and Photo League

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Nabbing Time

• Anticipating the Moment

CHAPTER FOURTEEN - From Halftones to Bytes

• Pictures and Printers Ink
• The Photo Magazine
• The Separation of Art and Commerce: Advertising and Fashion
• Newspapers
• War Reportage
• The New Subjective Journalism
• Bytes of News

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - The Atomic Age: New Light/Fresh Methods

• The Surrealistic Metaphor
• The Photograph as Spirit
• Photo Education as Self-Expression
• Family of Man
• Photography and Alienation
• Making a Big Jump
• The Subjective Documentary
• The Terror of Riches
  

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - New Frontiers: Expanding Boundaries

• Structuralism: Reading a Photograph
• The Found Image: The Beginnings of Postmodernism
• The Rise of Pop Art
• Challenging the Code
• The Social Landscape
• New Journalism
• Multiple Points of View
• The Rapid Growth of Photographic Education

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Changing Realities

• Alternative Visions
• Turning the Straight Photograph on Itself
• Personal Accounts: Documentary Fiction
• The Snapshot
• Post-Structuralism/New Topographics
• The Rephotographic Survey Project/Time Changes
• Color Rising
• Artists' Books
• Reconfiguring Information
• Expanding Markets
• Critical Writing

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Thinking About Photography

• Conceptual Art: The Act of Choosing
• Performance Art
• A Return to Typologies
• Postmodernism
• Deconstructing Myths
• Gender Issues
• Fabrication
• Altering Time and Space
• Investigating the Body
• Multiculturalism: Exploring Identity & History
• A Personal Cultural Landscape
• The Digital Future Is Now
• The Postphotographic Age
  

Bibliography -- Individual Artists -- Technology -- Sources of Artists Books -- Index

1000 Artist Journal Pages

1000 artist journal pages : personal pages and inspiration by Dawn DeVries Sokol is a new book now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"An art journal is a visual diary, a place to play, experiment, imagine, remember, try new techniques, and to document your daily life, your ambitions, and your dreams. It is also a place to scream, to cry, to lament, to fantasize, and to get in touch with your innermost self.

This book shares with you over 1,000 intimate, exciting, beautiful, experimental, and very personal pages from journal artists all around the world. You will be inspired, touched, and amazed by what you find within these pages." -- back cover

Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Prompts to Get You Pumped
• Gallery of Journal Pages
• Resources
• Directory of Artists
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements

Langford's Starting Photography

Langford's starting photography : the guide to creating great images (6th edition) by Michael Langford & Philip Andrews is a new book now available for loan from the Learning Centre.



Contents:


Part 1 - Picture Making

• Seeing and photographing
• Using the viewfinder - framing up
• Creating a point of emphasis
• Picking lighting conditions
• Pattern, texture and shape
• Using color
• Projects: Developing a personal approach

Part 2 - Camera, Sensors and Film

• Camera principles
• The camera
• Sensors
• Films
• Scanners

Part 3 - Creative Use of Camera Controls

• Shutter speeds and movement
• Focus and aperture
• Choice of exposure
• Changing focal length
• Set for digital success
• Projects

Part 4 - Tackling Different Photographic Subjects

• People
• Places
• Animal portraits
• Landscapes
• Creating black and white images
• Close-up subjects
• Action and sports photographs
• Going with the flow
• Projects: Tackling self-set themes

Part 5 - Controlling Light

• The basics of great lighting
• Lighting for people photographs
• Lighting objects
• Outside shooting
• Flash and its control
• Layout and lighting in the studio
• Projects

Part 6 - Photographic Workflow

• Demystifying the photographic process

Part 7 - Digital Processing and Printing

• Introduction the digital photography tools
• Transferring pictures from the camera to computer
• Processing the picture file
• First steps in enhancing
• Editing techniques
• Printing your digital files

Part 8 - Experimental and Constructed Images

• Letting the image move
• Exploring reflections
• Using lens attachments
• Combining pictures
• Creative digital
• Print manipulation
• Projects

Part 9 - Presenting and Assessing Your Work

• Finishing off
• Presenting pictures in sets
• Digital presentation
• Evaluating your results

Part 10 - Troubleshooting

• Film users: assessing the results
• General shooting faults
• Digital users: checking images on the desktop

Appendices

• Appendix A Computer connection types
• Appendix B Camera memory cards
• Appendix C Digital camera sensor sizes and resolution (megapixels)
• Appendix D Suggested starting speeds/apertures for difficult night scenes
• Appendix E Scanner connections
• Appendix F What resolution should I pick?
• Appendix G ISO settings and their uses
• Appendix H Minimum shutter speeds to stop camera shake
• Appendix I Settings to control depth of field
• Appendix J Suggested starting speeds to freeze the action of different events
• Appendix K Flash guide numbers, apertures and distance
• Appendix L Using a hand-held meter
• Appendix M Batteries
• Appendix N Health and safety in photography
• Appendix O Black and white film processing and printing
• Appendix P Chemically treating black and white prints

Glossary

Index

New Dimensions in Photo Processes

New dimensions in photo processes : a step by step manual for alternative techniques (4th edition) by Laura Blacklow is a new book now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

LIGHT-INSENSITIVE METHODS

1. Transfers and Lifts Solvent Transfers -- Muscle Rub Transfers, by Dorothy Imagire -- Polaroid Image Transfers -- Polaroid Emulsion Lifts -- Magazine Lifts -- Lazertran Inkjet Lifts, by Dorothy Imagire

2. Hand Coloring Water-Based Method -- Oil-Based Method

3. Toning Method Overview -- Materials -- Toning the Entire Print -- Split Toning -- Selective Toning

PREPARATION FOR LIGHT-SENSITIVE METHODS

4. Creating the Photo-Printmaking Studio Equipment (Including Building a Light Box, Contact Printing Frame, and Exposure Unit) -- Materials (Including Paper) and Procedures

5. Making Negatives: Analogue Method With a Darkroom -- Without a Darkroom -- Pinhole, by Jesseca Ferguson and Walter Crump

6. Making Negatives: Digital Method, by Youngsuk Suh Scanning: Capturing Images -- Image Correction -- Printing with Digital Negatives

LIGHT-SENSITIVE METHODS

7. Cyanotypes Materials -- Making the Stock Solution -- Making a Cyanotype -- Cyanotype on Fabric -- Toning Cyanotypes

8. Van Dyke Brown Prints Materials -- Making the Solution -- Making a Brown Print

9. Gum Bichromate Prints Materials -- Making the Bichromate Solution -- Making a Gum Print

10. Casein Pigment Prints Materials -- Making the Bichromate Solution -- Making a Casein Print

11. Platinum and Palladium Printing Materials -- Mixing the Stock Sensitizers -- Making a Platinum or Palladium Print -- Contrast Control Chart for Platinum/Pallasium Printing

12. Bromoil Printing, by Gene Laughter Materials -- Guidelines for Bromoil Printing -- Making a Bromoil Print -- Brush Actions for Inking -- Print Finishing and Enhancement

13. Enlargement Emulsions Materials -- Making an Enlargement Emulsion Print -- Making Tintypes by Lana Z Caplan

14. Contemporary Daguerrotypes (Becquerel Process), assisted by Tyler Treadwell Materials -- Making a Daguerrotype

14. Alternative Color Exposure and Printing Processes, by Juliana Swatko Materials -- Alternative Film Techniques -- Chromoskedasic Painting, by Laura Blacklow

Annotated Bibliography -- Supply Sources -- Equivalent Imperial and Metric Measurements -- Glossary -- Index