New Dimensions in Photo Processes, 4/e: A Step by Step Manual for Alternative Techniques

Description

Clear instructions and step-by-step photographs teach you how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive emulsions by hand, how to create imagery in and out of the darkroom, how to translocate Polaroid photos, photocopies,magazine and newspaper pictures, and how to alter black-and-white and color photographs.

FULL COLOR throughout for the first time, this redesigned fourth edition of New Dimensions in Photo Processes beautifully highlights the work of internationally known artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Walker, Doug and Mike Starn, and John Wood. An invaluable list of supply sources (including e-mail addresses) from throughout North America and Europe is included at the end of the book. Landscape layout allows for easy readability in the studio!

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I:
LIGHT-INSENSITIVE TECHNIQUES
1. Transfers and Lift
Solvent Transfers
Muscle Rub Transfers by Dorothy Imagire
Polaroid Image Transfers and Emulsion Lifts Magazine Lifts
Lazertran by Dorothy Imagire
2. Hand Coloring
Water-Based Method
Oil-Based Method
3. Toning

Part II
PREPARATION FOR LIGHT-SENSITIVE TECHNIQUES
4. Creating the Photo-Printmaking Studio
Equipment
Materials (including paper choices) and Procedures
5. Making Negatives-Analogue Method
With a Darkroom
Without a Darkroom
Pinhole Negatives by Jesseca Ferguson and Walter Crump
6. Making Negatives-Digital Method by Young Suk Suh

Part III
LIGHT-SENSITIVE TECHNIQUES
7. Cyanotypes
8. Van Dyke Brown Prints
9. Gum Bichromate Prints
10.Casein Pigment Prints
11.Platinum and Palladium Printing
12 Contemporary Daguerreotypes by Laura Blacklow with assistance from Tyler Treadwell
13.Bromoil Printing by Gene Laughter
14. Enlargement Emulsions
15. Alternative Color Photography by Juliana Swatko
16. Chromoskedasic Painting by Laura Blacklow

Annotated Bibliography
Supply Sources
Conversion Chart