Hacking the Digital Print: Alternative image capture and printmaking processes with a special section on 3D printing

Foreword

Mark Osterman

It would be difficult for most who know my work to imagine why I would be asked to write a foreword for a book on digital photography. My knowledge is solidly built upon the foundation of 20th-century analog photography. I grew up in the golden era of what was then “conventional” silver-based black and white and chromogenic color photography. And while I have come to embrace numeric imaging (a polite way of dodging the term photography when speaking about the digital print), I am by no means an expert in its theory or use.

I research and teach how photographs were made in the 19th century when the photographer was not only the picture taker, but the maker of both the photosensitive substances used in the camera and the ...