Research Catalog

Title

The book of alternative photographic processes / Christopher James.

Author

James, Christopher (Christopher P.), 1947-

Publication

• Boston : Cengage Learning, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xxx, 847, 10 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

Completely revised and updated, this exciting new edition has been significantly expanded and lavishly illustrated and now features over 700 images. New chapters offer thorough coverage of such alternative processes as the Athenatype, Bayard's Direct Positive Process, the Whey Process, the alternative negative, fumed silica substrate application, inkjet polymer gravure, digital imaging, and paper and alternative substrate. Myriad new images from professional artists, secondary students, post-secondary students, and educators accompany the many historical images - helping you set goals for your own work. Clear instructions and detailed workflows for all processes make this an accessible, practical resource. Detailed table and sink set-ups, supply lists, web and artist links, online resources, and critical chemical information provide an easy transition from classroom to home studio. -- from cover flap.

Alternative Title

Alternative photographic processes

Subjects

• Photography > Processing
• Photography, Handworked
• Photography > Printing processes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 842-847) and index.

Contents

Making art with a box of air: the pinhole & camera obscura -- The anthotype & chlorophyll process: the art of printing with flowers & vegetation -- The calotype process & the art of fixing shadows -- Bayard's direct positive process -- The salted paper process -- The whey process -- The cyanotype process -- Cyanotype variations & inventions -- The argyrotype process -- The new chrysotype process -- Fumed silica -- The kallitype process -- The platinum/palladium process -- The ziatype process -- The athenatype process -- The albumen process -- Wet plate collodion process: tintypes, ambrotypes, & glass plate negatives -- The gum bichromate process -- Dichromate process options: the gumoil process, 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 -- The carbon print process -- The Van Dyke brown process & variations -- POP: printing-out paper -- Hand-applied emulsions -- The alternative negative -- Digital imagining -- Inkjet photopolymer gravure: direct to plate -- Paper and alternative substrates: history, consideration, preparation, sizing, & hardening -- Light markings -- Appendix A: Chemical safety considerations, definitions, information, small volume conversions and formulas -- Appendix B: Selected bibliography: alternative processes -- Online appendices. Appendix C: Light & exposure options -- Appendix D: An alternative process workspace -- Appendix E: Alternative process shopping list -- Appendix F: Resources, workshops & internet sites: chemistry, paper, lab gear, references, and the book artist's web sites.

Call Number

JQF 17-268

ISBN

• 1285089316
• 9781285089317

LCCN

2014953466

OCLC

905378370

Author

James, Christopher (Christopher P.), 1947- author.

Title

The book of alternative photographic processes / Christopher James.

Publisher

Boston : Cengage Learning, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

Third edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 842-847) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: LESLEY UNIV. COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN. HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS. ILLUS.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-268