Adam Bell

Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts Adam Bell

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive and online photographic work, the lens and screen have emerged as central tools for many artists. Vision Anew brings together a diverse selection of texts by practitioners, critics, and scholars to explore the evolving nature of the lens-based arts. Presenting essays on photography and the moving image alongside engaging interviews with artists and filmmakers, Vision Anew offers an inspired assessment of the medium's ongoing importance in the digital era. Contributors include Ai Weiwei, Gerry Badger, David Campany, Lev Manovich, Christian Marclay, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Murch, Trevor Paglen, Pipilotti Rist, Shelly Silver, Rebecca Solnit, and Alec Soth, among others. This vital collection is essential reading for artists, educators, scholars, critics and curators, and anyone who is passionate about the lens-based arts--Provided by publisher."Biographical Note: Adam Bell is a photographer and writer. Coeditor of "The Education of a Photographer," he has written for numerous publications, including "Afterimage"," The Brooklyn Rail, The Art Book Review, ""FOAM Magazine," "photo-eye," and "Paper Journal." He is currently on staff and faculty in the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department, School of Visual Arts. Charles H. Traub is chair of the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department, School of Visual Arts, and president of the Aaron Siskind Foundation. His many books include "Dolce Via: Italy in the 80s, The Education of a Photographer, " and "In the Realm of the Circuit, " and his writings have been published in "Connoisseur, Fortune, Newsweek, Aperture, U. S. News & World Report, Afterimage, Popular Photography, American Photographer, " and "The New Yorker." Jacket Description/Flap: "A valuable, timely, and stimulating collection."--Geoff Dyer, author of "The Ongoing Moment" ""Vision Anew" is a remarkable compendium of important artists, practitioners, theorists, and essayists, who muse on what constitutes creativity in the lens and screen arts today. The book reveals how the intersection of a mobile Internet with photography and video has radically changed what we expect from the witnessing camera. I think this book is destined to be essential reading for all those thinking about the future of our visual culture."--Mark Lubell, Executive Director, International Center of Photography "Brings together prophetic historic texts with the best of recent thinking to create an essential reader. This book provides a critical framework that genuinely supports a creative life in photography; its pluralism in the range of ideas and voices speaks out for what is new and what is enduring in the vital dynamics of photographic culture."--Charlotte Cotton, author of "The Photograph as Contemporary Art"Publisher Marketing: The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive and online photographic work, the lens and screen have emerged as central tools for many artists. "Vision Anew" brings together a diverse selection of texts by practitioners, critics, and scholars to explore the evolving nature of the lens-based arts. Presenting essays on photography and the moving image alongside engaging interviews with artists and filmmakers, "Vision Anew" offers an inspired assessment of the medium's ongoing importance in the digital era. Contributors include Ai Weiwei, Gerry Badger, David Campany, Lev Manovich, Christian Marclay, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Murch, Trevor Paglen, Pipilotti Rist, Shelly Silver, Rebecca Solnit, and Alec Soth, among others. This vital collection is essential reading for artists, educators, scholars, critics, and curators, and anyone who is passionate about the lens-based arts.

Contributor Bio:  Traub, Charles H

Mr. Traub is Chair of the Graduate MFA Program in Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts in New York City, the largest independent college of art in the United States. He received his masters of Science from the institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and A Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois. He is also principal of Charles H. Traub Photography, a consulting photographic firm, and was formerly the director of The Light Gallery. He is President of Tecota (Technology Conservatory of America), a non-profit organization for support of humanities and technology and President of the Aaron Siskind Foundation for support of creative photography. He is one of the co founders of the organization and exhibition Here Is New York . He has had numerous one-person exhibitions including Marcus Pfeifer Gallery, Van Straaten Gallery, Art Directors Guild of New York, Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Hudson River Museum. Mr. Traub has authored and edited many books including Beach, Italy Observed, and Anglers Album, and has had his work published in Connoisseur, Fortune, Newsweek, U. S. News and World Report, American Photographer, Popular Photography, Aperture, and Afterimage. He has received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, Hendrecks Foundation, Illinois Art Council, Manda Foundation, and Olympics Arts Organization Committee. His new book In the Realm of Circuit is due from Prentice Hall in the fall of 2002

Jonathan Lipkin is associate professor of digital media at Ramapo College of New Jersey, consistently ranked one of the Northeast's best public liberal arts colleges, and on the graduate faculty of the School of Visual Arts' Computer Art and Photography and Related Media programs. He received his master of fine arts from the School of Visual Arts and his bachelor of arts from Wesleyan University. As a photographer his work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines from the New York Times to Hip Hop Connection, and been exhibited across the country in public spaces like the Port Authority of New York and in exhibitions such as Imaging/Aging. His writing has appeared in many academic journals, and he has been a columnist for electronic publications such as the ASCI newsletter. His book In the Realm of the Circuit is due from Prentice-Hall in the Fall of 2002, and his book Digital Art and Design: Photography is due from Harry N. Abrams in Spring 2003. As a designer, he created the first web art exhibited by New York's prestigious PS1 museum. He has lectured across the country and internationally on issues of digital media.