Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer (2008)
Journal Article
Hammond, A. (2008). Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer. History of Photography, 32(1), 51-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290701723238

Ansel Adams's photographic career was paralleled by his desire to achieve the finest quality of photomechanical reproduction of his images for his many fine printed books. For thirty years, he relied upon letterpress halftone to recreate the aestheti... Read More about Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer.

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature (2008)
Journal Article
Hammond, A. (2008). Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature. History of Photography, 32(4), 301. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290802315736

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature.... Read More about Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature.

An artists’ approach to the interpretation of luminance and reproduction of coloured shadows through pigment colour mixing (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C. (2008, November). An artists’ approach to the interpretation of luminance and reproduction of coloured shadows through pigment colour mixing. Presented at Colorlab Workshop #7/2008: Dynamic range of light, contrast and perception in digital images, Norwegian Color Research Laboratory, Gjøvik University College, Norway

Invited Colorlab Workshop #7/2008: Dynamic range of light, contrast and perception in digital images, organized by the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory, Gjøvik University College. In natural and artificial environments light has an extremely hi... Read More about An artists’ approach to the interpretation of luminance and reproduction of coloured shadows through pigment colour mixing.

The future of publishing (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L., & Sowden, T. (2008, November). The future of publishing. Paper presented at 10th Biennial Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair and Conference, Cafritz Art Center, Montgomery College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden were invited by Tate Shaw, organiser of the event, to present research into the future of the contemporary artist’s book in the digital age from their AHRC funded project. In an arena including digital and traditional arti... Read More about The future of publishing.

The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., & Rizzi, A. (2008, November). The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception. Paper presented at CHArt Conference (Computers and the History of Art 24th Annual Conference), Birkbeck, University of London

The paper considers the relation between the art and science of colour perception and how computational procedures, which mimic our visual system, have been developed to advance digital imaging techniques for the enhancement of colour and image quali... Read More about The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception.

Artists’ books abroad (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L., & Sowden, T. (2008, November). Artists’ books abroad. Presented at Artists’ Books Abroad, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA

Presenting an overview of artist's book publishing in Europe and further afield: contemporary artists’ books, Internet publishing projects, altered books, performance books, and use of digital and traditional production methods.

The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books (2008)
Book Chapter
Bodman, S. L. (2008). The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books. In D. Jury (Ed.), The Hybrid Lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books (35-55). Codex Foundation, USA

The introduction of this book outlines the historical relationship between art, design, and the book. There are illustrated transcripts of the four symposium speakers: Robert Bringhurst, Felipe Ehrenberg, Sarah Bodman, and Stefan Soltek, all devoted... Read More about The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books.

Ansel Adams books: Photographs in ink (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Hammond, A. (2008, October). Ansel Adams books: Photographs in ink. Presented at Ansel Adams' Books: Photographs in Ink, Centre for the Book, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA

This study follows the development of Adam's aesthetic attitude to different methods of printed reproduction of his fine photgraphs, from letterpress (beginning in the 1920s), through occasional experiments with photogravure, to duotone offset photol... Read More about Ansel Adams books: Photographs in ink.

A quest for printed colour - From Hayter to hardcopy (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Thirkell, P. (2008, October). A quest for printed colour - From Hayter to hardcopy. Paper presented at 'New Ways to use Print Technology ...On Paper', University of the West of England, Bristol

Artist and researcher Paul Thirkell traces his quest to bring colour to print through 3 decades of artistic currents and trends. The presentation aims to reveal insights into how print based artists think about and engage with colour.

Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., Laidler, P., & Wang, Y. (2008, October). Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples. Presented at 'New Ways to use Print Technology ...On Paper', University of the West of England, Bristol

This workshop compared different pre-printed samples on a range of fine art materials, which range from Japanese papers to fine art canvas. These samples demonstrate a very broad range of surface qualities and differences in the gamut of the printed... Read More about Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples.

Facilitating the fine art digital print (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2008, October). Facilitating the fine art digital print. Paper presented at 'New Ways to use Print Technology ...On Paper', University of the West of England, Bristol

The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th – 19th C coincided with art’s Romantic period and its depiction of the ‘great person’ theory. Here, the Romanticists’ solitary creator and autographic distinction were the highest forms of originality in art... Read More about Facilitating the fine art digital print.

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Hammond, A. (2008, October). Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature. Paper presented at Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the Intangible in Art and Nature, Smithsonian National Museum of American History

This lecture considered the many ways in which the techical means of expression, of painting in colour, and photography in black and white, enabled these two artists to transform landscape elements into psychic symbols, or allusions to a spirtual rea... Read More about Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature.

Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page (2008)
Journal Article
Hammond, A. (2008). Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page

Despite the separate hand-made status generally attributed to the artist’s book, its study yields insights into the more commercially generated photographic book. This essay uses the examples of books by three 20th century photographers – Dorothea La... Read More about Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page.

Three-dimensional fabrication of smart actuators: design applications (2008)
Book Chapter
Walters, P., & Rossiter, J. (2008). Three-dimensional fabrication of smart actuators: design applications. In NIP24: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Society for Imaging Science and Technology

A conference paper presented at the NIP24: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication 2008, September 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. This paper describes the design and digital fabrication of a series of “... Read More about Three-dimensional fabrication of smart actuators: design applications.

3D printing of bespoke ceramic artworks (2008)
Book Chapter
Huson, D. (2008). 3D printing of bespoke ceramic artworks. In S. A. T. The Society for Imaging (Ed.), NIP24: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication 2008 (287-290). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Society for Imaging Science and Technology

David Huson and colleagues at the Centre for Fine Print Research in the Faculty of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England are conducting a three-year AHRC funded research project into the use of Digital Fabrication techniques... Read More about 3D printing of bespoke ceramic artworks.

Specifying colour and maintaining colour accuracy for 3D printing (2008)
Journal Article
Parraman, C., Walters, P., Huson, D., & Reid, B. (2008). Specifying colour and maintaining colour accuracy for 3D printing. Proceedings of SPIE, 6805, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.766540

Advances in rapid prototyping technologies have led to the emergence of three-dimensional printers which can fabricate physical artefacts, including the application of surface colours. In light of these developments, this paper asserts that the need... Read More about Specifying colour and maintaining colour accuracy for 3D printing.

The quiet democracy of the contemporary artist’s book (or, why do artists make books?) (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L. (2008, July). The quiet democracy of the contemporary artist’s book (or, why do artists make books?). Paper presented at Books that Fly, University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts and Architecture

Invited paper at Books That Fly Conference, University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts and Architecture. As today’s discussions are related to the concept of the ‘artist’s book’ in the show Blood on Paper - The Art of the Book and Tom Lubbock’s revi... Read More about The quiet democracy of the contemporary artist’s book (or, why do artists make books?).

The photographic in digital printmaking (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2008, July). The photographic in digital printmaking. Paper presented at The Association for Photography in Higher Education: Annual Conference Shifting Perspectives: Photography, Education and the Future, University of the West of England, Bristol

The paper describes the initial felt need to begin investigating the impact of digital technology within the field of fine art printmaking as a practice led PhD study. Then moving beyond the felt need the presentation pinpoints a series of seminal te... Read More about The photographic in digital printmaking.

Colour in flux: Describing and printing colour in art (2008)
Journal Article
Parraman, C. (2008). Colour in flux: Describing and printing colour in art. Proceedings of SPIE, 6807, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.766612

This presentation will describe artists, practitioners and scientists, who were interested in developing a deeper psychological, emotional and practical understanding of the human visual system who were working with wavelength, paint and other materi... Read More about Colour in flux: Describing and printing colour in art.

Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural affinities (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Hammond, A. Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural affinities. 23 May 2008 - 7 September 2008. (Unpublished)

Curator: Dr Anne Hammond The exhibition consists of 94 works of art -paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe and photographs by Ansel Adams – seen together for the first time in terms of their personal goals and shared background, in a comparative considerati... Read More about Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural affinities.