Written by internationally acclaimed artist and photographer Christopher James, THE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES: 3rd Edition is the definitive text for students and professionals studying alternative photographic processes and the art of hand-made photographic image making. This innovative Third Edition brings the medium up to date with new and historic processes that are integrated with the latest contemporary innovations, adaptations, techniques, and art work. This 800 page edition is packed with more than 700 exquisite illustrations featuring historical examples as well as the art that is currently being made by professional alternative process, artists, teachers, and students of the genre. The third edition is the complete and comprehensive technical and aesthetic resource exploring and delving into every aspect of alternative photographic process photography. Each chapter introduces the history of a technique, presents an overview of the alternative photographic process that will be featured, reviews its chemistry, and provides practical and easy to follow guidance in how to make it work. In his conversational writing style, James also explores the idiosyncrasies, history, and cultural connections that are such a significant part of the history of photography. Featuring traditional and digital contact negative production as well as an array of processes, spread out over 28 chapters, THE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES: 3RD EDITION delivers clear instructions, practical workflows and advice, humor, history, art, and immeasurable inspiration.
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Topic
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Figure
1–1
Christopher
James,
Kafka-Man,
Venice,
1987
I
made
this
image
using
a
Diana
plastic
toy
camera
that
I
modified
with
a
Kershaw
450
shutter
(keeping
the
single-element
plastic
lens
of
course).
The
120mm
negative
was
then
projected
to
a
direct
duplicating
film
(no
longer
made),
which
was
used
as
a
contact
negative
for
this
palladium
print.
(Courtesy
of
the
Artist/Author)
Copyright
2016
Cengage
Learning.
All
Rights
Reserved.
May
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be
copied,
scanned,
or
duplicated,
in
whole
or
in
part.
Due
to
electronic
rights,
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third
party
content
may
be
suppressed
from
the
eBook
and/or
eChapter(s).
Editorial
review
has
deemed
that
any
suppressed
content
does
not
materially
affect
the
overall
learning
experience.
Cengage
Learning
reserves
the
right
to
remove
additional
content
at
any
time
if
subsequent
rights
restrictions
require
it.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Statement
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Ch 1: Making Art With a Box of Air: The Pinhole & Camera Obscura
- Ch 2: The Anthotype & Chlorophyll Process: The Art of Printing with Flowers & Vegetation
- Ch 3: The Calotype Process & the Art of Fixing Shadows
- Ch 4: Bayard’s Direct Positive Process
- Ch 5: The Salted Paper Process
- Ch 6: The Whey Process
- Ch 7: The Cyanotype Process
- Ch 8: Cyanotype Variations & Inventions
- Ch 9: The Argyrotype Process
- Ch 10: The New Chrysotype Process
- Ch 11: Fumed Silica
- Ch 12: The Kallitype Process
- Ch 13: The Platinum/Palladium Process
- Ch 14: The Ziatype Process
- Ch 15: The Athenatype Process
- Ch 16: The Albumen Process
- Ch 17: Wet Plate Collodion Process: Tintypes Ambrotypes, & Glass Plate Negatives
- Ch 18: The Gum Bichromate Process
- Ch 19: Dichromate Process Options: Gumoil, Photo-Resists, Chromatype, Bichromated Wash Drawings, Dusting-On Process, Gum Bichromate on Glass, Herschel’s Breath Printing, Estabrook’s 3-D Gums, Winther’s Bichro-Silver Process
- Ch 20: The Carbon Print Process
- Ch 21: The Van Dyke Brown Process & Variations
- Ch 22: POP: Printing-Out Paper
- Ch 23: Hand-Applied Emulsions
- Ch 24: The Alternative Negative
- Ch 25: Digital Imagining
- Ch 26: Inkjet Photopolymer Gravure: Direct To Plate
- Ch 27: Paper and Alternative Substrates: History, Considerations, Preparation, Sizing, & Hardening
- Ch 28: Light Markings
- Appendix A: Chemical Safety Considerations, Definitions, Information, Small Volume Conversions and Formulas
- Appendix B: Selected Bibliography: Alternative Processes
- Index
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