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The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age
The Digital Eye Photographic Art in the Electronic Age Author:Sylvia Wolf Photographers who use digital — technologies as tools for creative — expression are driving the most — exciting and transformative — developments in today s — photography. Digital photographic and imaging technologies are the most — recent development in an art and science whose history is one — of constant technological innovation. Using sophisticated... more »
software and scanners, artists are able to enhance or alter
photographs, and create mesmerizing effects. Focusing
exclusively on digital photography, Sylvia Wolf explores a
medium that challenges our notions of the role of the artist
and of an image s relationship to the real.
Taking readers from the earliest experiments in digital
photography to the latest innovations, Wolf offers a historical
perspective and points to future trends. The work of a global
panoply of artists, including Ida Applebroog, Sheila Pree
Bright, Peter Campus, Xing Danwen, Joan Fontcuberta, Tom
Friedman, Andreas Gursky, Martina Lopez, Loretta Lux, Mary
Mattingly, Wendy McMurdo, Andreas Müller-Pohle, Thomas
Ruff, Lucas Samaras, and Jeff Wall, demonstrates how diverse
and complex the field has become. This expert survey offers a
riveting snapshot of a medium that is changing the way we