Authors ' Biographies

Glenn Rand has been an educator since 1966. In these years he has taught and administered in public education, community colleges, and universities. Since 2001 he has taught in the graduate program at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, where he serves as acting graduate program Chair. In conjunction with these academic roles and consulting he has developed and reorganized several curricula for fine art photography, commercial photography, digital imaging, and allied curricula.

He received his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Purdue University, earning a Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati centering on the Psychology of Educational Spaces, with post-doctoral research as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan.

Photographs by Glenn Rand are in thirty public museum collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan and have been exhibited widely. He has also had his photographs published as editorials, illustration, and advertising.

He has published and lectured extensively about photography and digital imaging, on topics ranging from commercial aesthetics to the technical fine points of lighting. Glenn has authored several books, including Black and White Photography (2nd ed., 2002) and Digital Photographic Capture (2005), and contributes regularly to various periodicals.

His consultant clients have included the Eastman Kodak Company, Ford Motor Company, Photo Marketing Association International, and the Ministry of Education of Finland, as well as many other businesses and several colleges.

Richard D. Zakia joined the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) photographic faculty in 1958, where, for 34 years, he taught photography and, for a time, served in an administrative position as Director of Educational Research and Development and the Media Center.

In 1980 he was awarded the “Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award.” For several years, he served as Chair of the Fine Art Photography Program and graduate program in Imaging Arts. He has authored and co-authored ten books dealing with photography and related areas in visual perception, semiotics, and advertising. With Dr. Leslie D. Stroebel (a former teacher), he co-edited the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography in 1993. In 2002 he published the second edition of his book, Perception and Imaging, and is now working on the third edition.

Prior to joining RIT, he was employed as a photographic engineer in the Color Technology Division of Eastman Kodak. Dr. Zakia received his undergraduate degree in Photographic Science from RIT and his doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Rochester. He served as a radioman in the Navy in both WWII and Korea.

Presently, he serves on the advisory board of the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Florida, and the editorial board of The Journal of Mental Imagery. During his teaching career he served on the advisory boards of Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, the Paris Photographic Institute in France, and the Polaroid Photographic Educational Group.