Alternative Photographic Processes: A Working Guide for Image Makers

Sometimes your best photo printing process is an almost-forgotten one -- like salt printing, kallitype, cyanotype, or photo etching. Transform your portraits and landscapes so they express romance, mystery, simplicity, or nostalgia. This practical darkroom manual combines clear instructions with before-and-after illustrations showing what to do and how to do it. Over 100 new works by famous photographers exhibit all the old techniques, while the text offers simple ways to find the key materials more >>

Sometimes your best photo printing process is an almost-forgotten one -- like salt printing, kallitype, cyanotype, or photo etching. Transform your portraits and landscapes so they express romance, mystery, simplicity, or nostalgia. This practical darkroom manual combines clear instructions with before-and-after illustrations showing what to do and how to do it. Over 100 new works by famous photographers exhibit all the old techniques, while the text offers simple ways to find the key materials and equipment, and use them in your darkroom. Soon, you'll be familiar with all these lost arts: albumen printing, Van Dyke printing, pellet printing, oil, carbon, gum, and casein printing, photo mechanical printing, photo etching, photogravure, silkscreening, Cliche Verre, bleach-etching, and more -- plus combinations of these. << less