Foreword

Dear Reader,

The passion for painting with light brings together a diverse group of people. The conversation about the perfect image and its technical and compositional aspects can be approached from very different directions. The images originate in the photographer’s head, or are a product of chance produced by passing circumstances.

Photographic technology, which Cora and Georg Banek address at the beginning of their Learning to Photograph series, is the vehicle to create an image, and it seems that we can talk about it much more concretely than the images it produces. In discussing the technology of photography and its outcomes, the authors reveal their own philosophy of photography, which I learned about while collaborating with ...

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