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52 Assignments: Experimental Photography

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52 Assignments: Experimental Photography by Chris Gatcum offers creative assignments aimed at pushing the boundaries of photography. The book inspires photographers to explore avant-garde techniques and unconventional approaches, fostering a unique perspective and innovative practices in capturing images. Each assignment encourages experimentation, helping both amateur and professional photographers to develop their skills and artistic vision.
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If you have a passion for photography and enjoy exploring new techniques, this book may appeal to you. It provides creative and experimental assignments that challenge you to push the boundaries of your photographic skills, offering inspiration and practical advice for photographers seeking to innovate and experiment with their craft.

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A project-based journal packed with prompts, projects and inspirations to inspire experimental creativity in your photography.

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52 Assignments: Experimental Photography is a mission brief, a photographic workshop, a personalised journal, and an anarchic guide to putting the creativity back into your photography. It is filled with prompts and projects, nudges and sparks, innovations and inspirations, and - most importantly - experiments in shooting, processing, and printing, to help you kick your photographic habits, step out of your comfort zone, and create your own collection of experimental work.

The book features 52 colour-coded commissions and concepts with alternative ideas for composing, creating, and printing photographic images. You will be briefed to tackle modern uses for traditional film, such as hacking vintage film cameras, making pinholes, playing with plastic, and collecting the filters that inspired Instagram. Additionally, explore traditional uses for digital, including multiple exposures, extreme speeds, timed challenges, and focus tricks, as well as lo-tech and hi-tech ways to manipulate your prints, such as staining prints with water, using digital effects, photocopy prints, burning photos, and printing on flexible surfaces.

The rest of the journal's pages are styled for you to add your own thoughts, notes, lists, Top 10s, technical specifications, quotes, sketches, and doodles, creating a record of your own 52 photographic assignments. These may be completed weekend by weekend over the course of a year or dipped into every time you need to bring a new edge or experimental approach to your photography.

Author: Chris Gatcum is an award-winning photographer and a highly experienced writer and editor of technical and technique-based photography books and articles. His published titles include The Complete Book of Photography and Plastic Cameras (Ammonite Press).

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  • 52 colour-coded commissions and concepts to get you experimenting with your photography
  • Experimental projects include: pinhole cameras, staining prints with water, burning photos, printing on flexible surfaces
  • With space to fill with your own notes, ideas, plans, and sketches

60 colour photographs and 10 illustrations

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781453544

Publisher: GMC Publications

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Ammonite Press

Illustration: 50 full-colour photographs, 10 full-colour illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Chris Gatcum is an award-winning photographer, and a highly experienced writer and editor of technical and technique-based photography books and articles. His published titles include The Complete Book of Photography and Plastic Cameras.

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