* 1955 BA in Art Photography MA in Creative Arts and Photography San Francisco State University Stephen Johnson is a landscape photographer, designer and lecturer. Photographing since 1973, he is internationally recognized as a digital photography pioneer. His digital work began in 1988 and currently focuses onhis groundbreaking all-digital work on America's national parks, "With a New Eye: The Digital National Parks Project." Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000 Oakland Museum, California 2001 Focus Gallery, London, UK, Group Show 2001 Epson Galleria, Mexico City, 2001 William Eggelston and the Color Tradition, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, 2000 "Film died for me in 1994 when I first used the BetterLight prototype scanning camera and compared the results with film. Film became a granular obfuscation of reality while the digital sensor yielded smooth detailed results. The advent of digital photography is not about manipulation. Quite the contrary, for me it is about seeing more clearly, with less interference and delay from the inspiration."