The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age

by 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 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 Maller-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 look at pictures and the world.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction

176 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2010

Reviews

[Chloe Pop · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastically interesting. I enjoyed the very crafty and experimental contemporary artwork, as well as the extensive creativity put into the digital expression. I am certainly going to inject some of these photoshopping tools and visual effects into my work as it was quite effective in evoking new and transformative sensory.

[Jay Gabler · Rating 3 out of 5]

My Daily Planet review:
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/35989