The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials

ISBN-13: 9781032149578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 276 str.

Christina Anderson

Opis

This book is focused on traditional black and white photographic materials now used in many nontraditional ways. Topics are divided into five sections cameraless experimentation, camera experimentation, printing experimentation, finished print experimentation, and a section highlighting contemporary photographers who use these approaches.

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: Setting Up the Contemporary Darkroom, Chapter 2: Digital Negatives for the Contemporary Darkroom Part 1: Cameraless Experimentaation, Chapter 3: Photograms and Cliché-Verres, Chapter 4: Lumenprints, Chapter 5: The Chemigram Part 2: Camera Experimentation, Chapter 6: Pinhole and Zoneplate, Chapter 7: The Holga, Part 3 – Printing Experimentation, Chapter 8: Chromo, Chapter 9: Liquid Emulsion and Modern Tintype, Chapter 10: Lith Printing, Chapter 11: Sabattier, Part 4 – Finished Print Experimentation, Chapter 12: Mordancage, Chapter 13: Bleaching and Bleachout, Chapter 14: Toning, Chapter 15: Applied Color and Abrasion Tone, Chapter 16: Encaustic, Collage, Photomontage, Chapter 17: Bromoil, Part 5: Contemporary Experimental Artistis, Appendix, Bibliography

O autorze

Christina Z. Anderson’s work focuses on the contemporary vanitas printed in a variety of 19th century photographic processes. Anderson’s work has shown nationally and internationally in 120 shows and 60 publications. Anderson has authored books which have sold in over 40 countries—The Experimental Photography Workbook, Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes, Gum Printing, A Step by Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, Salted Paper Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists, and Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice; also Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP, Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers co-authored with Ron Reeder, and Handcrafted: The Art and Practice of the Handmade Print co-authored with Wang, Jianming, and King. Anderson is Series Editor for Focal Press/Routledge’s Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography series and Professor of Photography at Montana State University. To see her work, visit christinaZanderson.com.