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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
SECTION I—The Important Stuff Before the Recipes
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Vocabulary
Chapter 3. The Darkroom
Chapter 4. Materials
Chapter 5. The Basics
Chapter 6. Coating Paper
Chapter 7. Troubleshooting Coating
Chapter 8. Printing
Chapter 9. Processing
Chapter 10. Toning and Other Ways to Add Color
SECTION II—The Recipes
Chapter 11. Developers
Chapter 12. Baryta Coating Surface
Baryta Paper Coating
Chapter 13 . Potassium Chloride (KCl) "Gaslight" Contact Printing Paper
Chapter 14. Three Salts Contact Printing Paper
Chapter 15. Chlorobromide (Kodabromide-Type) All-Purpose Paper
Chapter 16. Bromide Paper for Enlarging and Contact Printing Paper
Chapter 17. Gelatin-Chloride Printing-Out Paper (POP)
Chapter 18. Paper Negatives
SECTION III—The Contributors
Chapter 19. Ian Andvaag
Chapter 20. Radoslaw Brzozowski
Chapter 21. Didier Derien
Chapter 22. Edward Durrill
Chapter 23. Cate Sampson
Chapter 24. George L Smyth
Bibliography
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Denise Ross has been a photographer for over 30 years and has been at the forefront of the handmade silver gelatin renaissance. Combining her background in science, research, and love of traditional black and white photography, Ross has extensively researched and reverse-engineered historic emulsion formulas and techniques for contemporary use. Ross created The Light Farm in 2008, a teaching website devoted to handmade silver gelatin emulsions and published an accompanying book of the same name. Ross’s work has been exhibited nationally and has appeared in publications such as Photo Techniques, Large Format Photography, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, and Jill Enfields’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes. To see her work, visit www.thelightfarm.com
Riassunto
This book is a cookbook of lessons that start with the simplest, basic recipes for making black and white printing paper and then builds on these to create more complex emulsions, including techniques and processes that incorporate handmade paper.
Testo aggiuntivo
An excellent introduction to the magical process of making your own silver gelatin emulsions and papers, full of practical advice and, most importantly it makes the process simple and understandable even to those with little or no darkroom experience.
R. Brzozowski,Head Tutorof Tricity School of Photography
