Photography: A 21st Century Practicespeaks to the contemporary student who has come of age in the era of digital photography and social media, where every day we collectively take more than a billion photographs. How do aspiring photographers set themselves apart from the smartphone-toting masses? How can an emerging photographic artist push the medium to new ground? 

The answers provided here are innovative, inclusive, and boundary-shattering thanks to the authors' framework of the 4Cs: Craft, Composition, Content, and Concept. Each is explored in-depth and packaged into a toolbox the photographic student can immediately put into practice. With a firm base in digital imaging, the authors also shed new light on chemical-based photographic processes and address the ways in which new technology is rapidly expanding photographic possibilities.