Digital photography is a relatively new topic for scholarly study in the area of computer mediated communication. Photographic technologies were only first computerized in the 1990s, but have rapidly supplanted older film technologies for a majority of professional uses. Digital photography has not simply substituted silicon chips for film, however, but has brought about rapid changes throughou...

DEAR EDITOR Photography is an essential part of plastic surgery given the visual nature of our specialty. Its uses are innumerable; it enables us to document form and function, helps us plan an operation, assists us in teaching, serves a medico-legal purpose and may even assist with research.1 This is by no means an exhaustive list. Yet, despite its indispensability to the proper practice of pl...

This paper will focus on the dialogue between photography and cinema by evaluating film theories used in Jeff Wall’s photos. In order to break restrictions different media art forms, Wall expanded space of breaks shackles conventional art, thereby gaining greater freedom expression.

The natural smoke exhaust system for tall spaces is more advantageous than the mechanical type of exhaust. In Taiwan, the effectiveness of natural smoke exhaust systems is inspected only by checking the vent area size. However, the air flow field in a tall space is very complicated, both at ordinary times or during fires. This study used Schlieren Photography technique, on the principle that li...

Rapid texture mapping of buildings and other man-made objects is a key aspect for reconstruction of 3D city landscapes. An effective approach by the way of coarse-to-fine 3D city model generation based on digital photogrammetric theory is proposed. Three image sequences, two oblique photography to buildings’ walls and one vertical photography to building’s roof, acquired by digital video camera...

Human beings have never encountered as many photographs we do today. They surround us in public spaces, and populate the numerous screens access our daily lives. Anthropologists are working to understand social cultural ramifications of this ubiquitous photography on societies throughout globe. This entry examines work anthropologists done on, with, photography. It surveys conclusions reached a...