Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Vision : Theory 1. Seeing, perceiving, and mediating vision : Photography and the anatomy of sight ; Conventions of seeing ; Mediated vision: photography and optical devices ; The viewer as distant or enmeshed observer: the camera obscura ; The natural eye: direct experience and photography ; Nineteenth-century viewing devices and their optical legacy ; The camera as mechanical eye ; New views: experiments in space and time -- Practice 1. Vision: tools, materials, and processes : Exploring human vision ; The camera as viewer ; The camera as recorder -- Part 2. Light and shadow : Theory 2. : Light and shadow : The void ; Writing and light ; "Light is radiation" ; Qualities of light ; The symbolism of light and dark ; Modern light and shadow ; Reflection, shadow and the self ; Projected light ; Shadow plays -- Practice 2. Light and shadow: tools, materials, and processes : The source of light ; The path of light ; Light's terminal point -- Part 3. Reproductive processes : Theory 3. Copying, capturing, and reproducing : Possessing the subject: the photographic copy ; Mass media and reproduction ; Mass reproduction and artworks ; Reproduction and ethics ; Reenacting as a photographic art -- Practice 3. Reproductive processes: tools, materials, and processes : Low-tech positives and negatives ; Rubbings ; Infinite ways to generate images ; Recording images: film and digital sensors ; Digital sensors ; Filters ; Processing images: developing film ; Small tank film processing ; Black and white film processing ; Evaluating negatives ; Printing images: traditional processes ; Black and white photographic paper ; Black and white print processing ; The Photogram ; Printing a context sheet in the darkroom ; Non-silver and historic processes ; Screenprinting ; Processing digital images: digital workflow ; Adobe Bridge ; Adobe Lightroom ; Printing images: digital printing ; Color management ; Digital printing: printing black and white on a color printer ; The digital contact sheet ; Other printing options ; Reproducing photographs with other materials --

To fully understand photography, it is essential to study both the theoretical and the technical. This book combines theory and practice in one text, exploring photographic ideas alongside processes.