ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with relating photography with the printing presses for outputting largequantities of pictures in magazines, books, etc. Printing and photography has had a long-standing association. Today many of the pre-press stages are handled by digital means, controlled by computers. Modern digital photography allows for making images widely
available, also by means other than the printed media – this is the discussion of several further
sections. Once in the form of digital data, images can easily be manipulated and transmitted for
distribution to clients and agents, or for publication on the World Wide Web. In mixing
techniques, still further, there is ‘multimedia’, under which umbrella photography is combined
with audio-visual projections, sound and lighting effects to create new forms of image
presentation. Preservation, storage and archiving conclude the chapter. Ensuring image
longevity presents various challenges. Some are common and some are different in silver-based
and in digital media. Storing photographic films, prints and digital media under controlled
environmental conditions, handling them with care and migrating digital image files from old to
newer media are all techniques which help to prolong the lifespan of photographs.
