"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

part I. Some preliminary ideas. 1. What is science? What is art?

part II. The nature of light. 2. What light is -- 3. What light does -- 4. The weird world of the photon -- 5. Spectra and sources of light

part III. Geometry and two-dimensional design. 6. Geometry and the picture plane -- 7. Light and shadows 1 : eclipses -- 8. Light and shadows 2 : photograms -- 9. Ray optics 1 : pinhole photography -- 10. Ray optics 2 : a fish's eye -- 11. Ray optics 3 : lenses -- 12. Symmetry -- 13. Two-dimensional design -- 14. Camera design -- 15. The view camera -- 16. Perspective and pinhole photography

part IV. Energy and photography. 17. The nature of energy -- 18. Energy and exposure -- 19. Tracing the energy from source to camera -- 20. The Jones-Condit equation -- 21. Illumination and photograms -- 22. The elements of exposure -- 23. Metering -- 24. Low-sensitivity detectors in photography -- 25. Ephemeral-process and cyanonegative photography

part V. The art and science of color. 26. The physical basis of color -- 27. The physiological basis of color -- 28. The psychological basis of color -- 29. Color synthesis in photography -- 30. Filters -- 31. Color experiments with black-and-white photography

part VI. Light detectors. 32 Types of detectors -- 33. The characteristic curve -- 34. Silver-based photochemical detectors 1 -- 35. Silver-based photochemical detectors 2 -- 36. Nonsilver photochemical detectors -- 37. Reciprocity failure and solarization -- 38. Photoelectronic detectors -- 39. Three-dimensional photography

part VII. Photography as an art and the meaning of digital -- 40. The digital and the analog -- 41. Digital photography and astronomy -- 42. Comparison of digital and film techniques -- 43. Image manipulation -- 44. The image, the object and the process -- 45. Four photographers and a musician -- 46. Toward an art and science of nature : a personal note -- 47. Make your own pinhole fisheye camera -- 48. Some technical notes on 'ephemeral process' photography

Appendix A. Units, dimensions, and scientific notation -- Appendix B. Notes on the golden rectangle -- Appendix C. Optimal pinhole size for a pinhole camera -- Appendix D. Lambertian reflectors and emitters -- Appendix E. A practical way to denote very-low sensitivity detector 'speed' -- Appendix F. The optics of the camera stupida.

This book uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art.

Teachers of introductory physics or astronomy at either the advanced high school or undergraduate level. Photographers at all levels of expertise, particularly those interested in alternative photographic processes.

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John Beaver is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Fox Cities Campus of University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he teaches physics, astronomy, photography and interdisciplinary courses.

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