Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype: A Step-by-Step Manual of Iron-Silver Processes Highlighting Contemporary Artists

ISBN-13: 9781032318714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str.

Donald Nelson

Opis

Focusing on three iron-silver processes: Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype, this book will guide readers through how to create prints using these accessible and historic processes in the digital age.

Often termed the Brownprint processes, author Donald W Nelson provides step-by-step detail on how to create prints using Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype methods, including information on the materials needed, troubleshooting issues, and examples from contemporary artists. The book consists of two parts. Part One is a step-by-step how-to section including all the information that a practitioner at any level needs to achieve successful Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype prints. Part Two is devoted to contemporary artists who have integrated the process into their creative practice.

The book includes:

• A list of equipment and supplies needed.
• Concise step-by-step instructions for creating Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype prints successfully.
• Troubleshooting common issues.
• A range of creative ideas on how to use the processes in the classroom
• Examples from over 20 contemporary artists, including their prints and how they came to make them.

Ideal for students and professionals alike, this book is an accessible introduction to alternative process photography.

Spis treści

Preface  Chapter 1. Introduction to Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype   Chapter 2. Chemistry Supplies  Chapter 3. Setting up the Brownprint Dimroom  Chapter 4. Creating the Digital Negative  Chapter 5. Paper selection  Chapter 6. Mixing Chemistry for the Processes - Sensitiers, Developers and Toners  Chapter 7. Making the Kallitype Print  Chapter 8. Making the Vandyke Brown Print  Chapter 9. Making the Argyrotype Print  Chapter 10. Troubleshooting  Chapter 11. Making the Toned Print  Chapter 12. Finishing Prints  Chapter 13. Contemporary Artists  Appendix A - Kallitype Developer Quadtonerip Ink Definiton Files  Appendix B - Gold Toner Quadtonerip Ink Definition Files  Appendix C - Prehumidified Argyrotype Quadtonerip Ink Definition File  Bibliography

O autorze

Don Nelson’s work focuses on the historic landscape in contemporary times, most often buildings disused or repurposed. Nelson has been a practitioner of alternative processes since 1983 using carbon transfer, platinum/palladium, kallitype, Vandyke brown, argyrotype, salt, and the now discontinued printing-out paper. Nelson began with large format cameras (12˝ x 20˝ and 7˝ x 17˝) but added digital negatives after a Dick Arentz/Mark Nelson Formulary workshop in the 1990s. Nelson continues to use both in-camera and digitally captured images in his work. He has shown work regionally. He is a co-author of Carbon Transfer Printing (Routledge, 2019) and authored a chapter on kallitype in Digital Negatives with QuadtoneRIP (Routledge, 2021). Nelson teaches carbon transfer classes at the Formulary/Workshops in Montana.