Historic Photographic Processes: A Guide to Creating Handmade Photographic Images
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ISBN: 1880559935 / Publisher: Allworth Pr, October 1998
Historic Photographic Processes: A Guide to Creating Handmade Photographic Images is a comprehensive user's guide to the historical processes that have become popular alternatives to modern and digital technology. Though many of the techniques, applications, and equipment were first developed in the nineteenth century, these same methods can be used today to create attractive hand-crafted images that are often more permanent than conventional prints or digital output.
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A user's guide to the historical processes that have become popular alternatives to modern and digital technology. Fine-art photographer Farber incorporates extensive research with clearly written directions and resource lists to provide in-depth information on eight of the most enduring processes in photographic history, including salted paper, albumen, cyanotype, kallitype, platinum/palladium, carbon/carbro, gum bichromate, and bromoil. He guides the reader through each step, from selecting the appropriate paper and sensitizing it to exposing, developing, and toning the final print. Contains about 60 b&w images that illustrate each process. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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