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List of contents
Chapter 1
Essential Moments in Photographic Printmaking
Chapter 2
Predarkroom Actions: Imaginative Thinking
Chapter 3
Special Classic Cameras and Equipment
Chapter 4
Image Capture: Special-Use Films, Processing, and Digital Negative Making
Chapter 5
Formulas of One’s Own
Chapter 6
Black-and-White Film Developers
Chapter 7
Analog Fine Printmaking: Equipment, Materials, and Processes
Chapter 8
Black-and-White Paper Developers
Chapter 9
Toning for Visual Effects
Chapter 10
Classic Historic Processes
Chapter 11
Pigmented and Alternative Processes
Chapter 12
Transforming Photographic Concepts: Expanding the Lexicon
Addendum 1
Safety Guidelines
About the author
Robert Hirsch is an artist, writer, and the director of Light Research (www.lightresearch.net). His books include Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography, Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Concepts, Equipment, Materials, and Processes, Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, and Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography from 1960 to Now. Hirsch is a former Associate Editor for Digital Camera and Photovision magazines, and a contributor to Afterimage, Exposure, History of Photography, The Photo Review, Photo Technique, and World Book Encyclopedia as well as former Director of CEPA Gallery. He has published scores of articles about visual culture and interviewed numerous eminent imagemakers. Hirsch’s work has been internationally exhibited in over 200 solo and group shows.
Summary
The long-awaited new edition of this seminal text features clear, reliable, step-by-step instructions on innovative alternative and traditional photographic processes
