Rebekah Modrak: “Reframing Photography”

Reframing Photography: Theory & Practice, the new book by A&D Associate Professor Rebekah Modrak that integrates photographic theory and practice across the widest possible creative spectrum, has been adopted by a growing number of art & design schools and programs. This line-up includes programs in the UK , Canada and the U.S., including Cecil College, Dublin Institute of Technology, Florida Atlantic University, Goldsmiths College, Grand Valley State University, Nottingham Trent University, Simon Fraser University, University of Kent, University of Michigan, University of North Texas, Vanderbilt University, Western Washington University, and York University.

The book has also received positive reviews from We Make Money Not Art and The Art Blog.

…the content is literally mind-blowing. Bringing together rigorous theory, idiot proof ​‘how to’ tutorials, artistic works that illustrate each concept and method might sound a bit too much for a sole book written by only two authors but somehow, it works. Theory, techniques and illustrative works complement each other efficiently.

The texts are extremely rigorous and well-researched but the authors never take readers’ knowledge of any concept nor reference for granted. Nothing is too pedestrian: the tutorials are extremely detailed and info boxes regularly pop up on the side to explain in few words what is a magic lantern, a chiaroscuro or an installation. Who is Lacan, why Bauhaus matters.

- We Make Money Not Art Book review — Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice