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Perception and Imaging

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ISBN-10: 024080466X

ISBN-13: 9780240804668

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Richard D. Zakia

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Zakia incorporates ideas and principles from a variety of disciplines, including Gestalt, that are highly relevant to photography and imaging, and shows how they can be applied for greatest artistic effect.
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Book details

List price: $45.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Selection
Ganzfeld
Figure-Ground
Figure-Ground Boundary
Graphic Symbols
What's in a Name?
Graininess and Noise
Resolution
Figure-Ground Enhancement
Nonvisual Figure-Ground
Notan
Visual Search
Camouflage
Key Words
Selection Exercises
Notes
Gestalt Grouping
Gestalt
Field Theory and Gestalt
Gestalt Laws
Proximity
Similarity
Continuity
Closure
Closure and Nonclosure
Gestalt Critique
Man as Participant
Gestalt Laws as a Means
A Word of Caution
Pragnanz
Seeing
Order and Complexity
Information Theory
Key Words
Gestalt Grouping Exercises
Notes
Memory and Association
Short-Term Memory/Long-Term Memory
From STM to LTM
Body as Memory
Mnemonics
Visual Memory/Color Memory
Sequencing
Association
Advertisements
Props (Signifiers)
Colors
Equivalents
Synesthesia
Onomatopoeia
Key Words
Memory and Association Exercises
Notes
Space, Time, and Color
Space
Camera as a Space Vehicle
Anisotropicity
Convexity/Concavity
Transparency
Time (Movement)
Implied Motion
Disappearance
Color
Color Notation
Munsell System
Color Ordering Systems
Ostwald System
Pantone
CIE System
CIE Chromaticity Diagram
Luminance (Value or Brightness)
Naming Colors within the CIE Diagram
Color Gamuts
Language Problem
Color Appearance
The Visual Field
Flare Desaturates Colors
Color Test Chart
Color Reproduction
Subtractive Systems
Additive Systems
Color Management
Color Is a Chameleon
Constancy
Metamerism
Defective Color Vision
Simultaneous Contrast and Assimilation
Color Dependency
Phosphors and Pointillism
Color Modality
Complementary Colors
Color Temperature
Color Names
Color and Synesthesia
Synesthesia and Photography
Color Connotations
Color versus Color
Key Words
Space, Time, and Color Exercises
Useful Color Web Pages
Notes
Contours
Common Contour
A Frog and a Squirrel
Subjective Contour
Mach Bands
Visual Vibrations
Photographic Edge Effects
Acutance
Development
Key Words
Contour Exercises
Notes
Illusion and Ambiguity
Trompe L'Oeil
Space, Time, and Color Illusions
Geometric Illusions
Reversibles
Time (Movement) Illusions
Computer Graphics and Animation
The Pulfrich Effect
The Waterfall Effect
Color Illusions
Size-Distance Trade-Offs
Dutch Cabinets
Size-Size Dependency
Shrinking Size, Increasing Distance
Emmert's Law
Size-Distance Reversal
Ambiguity
Key Words
Illusion and Ambiguity Exercises
Notes
The Morphics
Isomorphic
Anthropomorphic
Zoomorphic
Theriomorphic
Mechanomorphic
Anamorphic
Key Words
Morphics Exercises
Notes
Personality
Projection, Introjection, and Confluence
Projection
Introjection
Confluence
Personality Types
Right Brain and Left Brain
Personal Space
Children
Field Dependency
Leveling and Sharpening
Key Words
Personality Exercises
Notes
Subliminals
The Retina
Embeds
Secondary Images
Faces
Pupillometrics
Archetypes
Kilroy
Key Words
Subliminals Exercises
Notes
Critiquing Photographs
Critique as Evaluation
Validity
Variability
Photographers' Comments
Critiquing
Clustering
Relationships
Direction
Nostalgia
Composition
On Location
Semantic Differential
Critique Using Group Dynamics
Critiquing without Words
Semiotics
Saussure and Peirce
Representation
Analyzing an Ad
Designing a Photograph for an Ad
Semiotic Operations
Other Applications
Key Words
Critiquing Photographs Exercises
Notes
Rhetoric
Using the Rhetorical Matrix
Where to Begin
Horse and Truck
Intuition First
Addition
Identity
Similarity
Difference
Opposition
False Homology
Suppression
Identity
Similarity
Difference
Opposition
False Homology: Ambiguity
False Homology: Paradox
Substitution
Identity
Similarity
Difference
Opposition
False Homology: Ambiguity
False Homology: Paradox
Exchange
Identity
Similarity
Difference
Opposition
False Homology: Ambiguity
False Homology: Paradox
Words, Sounds, and Rhetoric
Definitions of Rhetorical Terms
Addition
Suppression
Substitution
Exchange
Key Words
Rhetoric Exercises
Notes
Additional Concepts
Agnosia, Anima and Animus
Caduceus, Cognitive Dissonace
Colorfulness
Cryptomnesia
Cyclops
Deja vu
Doppelganger
Fibonacci Numbers
Flare Light
Gargoyle
Hypnagogic and Hypnopomic (pre- and post-sleep)
Image Dissection
Jamais vu
Janus
Mandala
Maypole, Metamerism
Negative Hallucination
Pareidolia
Parks Effect
Perceptual Dissonance
Psychogenic Amnesia
Sense of Presence, Sensory Deprivation
Stroop Effect
Synchronism
Synchronicity
The Three Graces, Verbal Imagery
Visual Search
Word Imagery, Concreteness, and Meaningfulness
Zoetrope
Notes