If you read the history of any new communication medium such as the cinema, television or radio, it always happens to be bound up with advances in some underlying technology. For example, cinema was born out of the rapid projection of a series of still images on a celluloid film strip. The difficulty of synchronizing sound recordings with the resulting moving images led to about 30 years of silent films - until such time as the technical problems were solved. In between the inventions, media seem to grow and develop at a slower pace, as content producers and consumers experiment with the most satisfactory and stimulating ways of communicating with each other. In the same example, silent film-makers eventually found ways of adding dialogue through scene titles and having music played during the projection of their films. This book is about the next chapter in the history of photography, which is emerging from a relatively stable period into a chaos of new inventions. Photography as we know it is at the same point as the silent films of 1926. The transition from analog to digital photography is spawning many new ways of taking, manipulating and sharing photographs. It is also bringing photography and videography closer together by unifying sound, still and moving images in the same digital medium.

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Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Audiophotos defined. Audiophotos as a new medium. Understanding audiophotography. A brief history of sound & image media. Sound memories and the phonograph. Sound and the printed image. Sound and the moving image. Lessons for audiophotography. Lessons for audiophoto content. Lessons for audiophoto technology. Domestic photography & the role of sound. The interpretation of images. The content and use of family albums. The therapeutic nature of photos. A new framework for domestic photography. The role of sound. Ambient photographs. Related work. The audiocamera trial. Audiophotos captured. Reactions to the audiocamera and audiophotos. Practice. Discussion. Musical Photographs. Related work. The audio annotation trial. Musical photos captured. Reactions. Practice. Discussion. Talking photographs. Related work. The audio annotation trial. Talking photos captured. Reactions. Practice. Discussion. Conversational photographs. Related work. The photo-talk study. Background features of photo-sharing conversations. The content and dynamics of photo-talk. Summary and findings on photo-talk. The storytelling photograph study. Storytelling photos captured. Reactions. Summary of findings on storytelling photographs. Discussion. Paper versus screen playback. Related work. Playback of ambient photographs. Results for playback of ambient photographs. Playback of musical and talking photographs. Results for playback of musical and talking photographs. Discussion. Conclusions. Lessons on photography. The role of sound in photography. Audiophoto content and technology. Photoware and new media design. The future of audiophotography. References. Glossary. Index.