Many of these books are available through Photo-Eye, 376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA (Tel: 505-988-5152, www.photoeye.com/bookstore; e-mail: [email protected]).
HISTORY AND THEORY
Atkins, Anna, with text by Lynn J. Schaaf. Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms. New York: Aperture, 1985.
Barnes, Martin. Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography. London: Merrell Publishing, 2012.
Great artists like Adam Fuss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Floris Neususs, Garry Fabian Miller.
Batchen, Geoffrey. “Len Lyle Shadowgraphs,” Aperture #13, Winter, 2013.
Cameraless portraits, some combining text.
Batchen, Geoffrey. Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph. Munich and London: Prestel Publishing, 2016.
Boni, Albert. Photographic Literature. New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1962.
International bibliographic guide to general and specialized literature on photographic materials and applications.
Bruce, David, ed. Sun Pictures. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1974.
Reproductions of Hill-Adamson calotypes from the Victorian era.
Buckland, Gail. Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography. Boston: David T. Godine, 1980.
Burns, Nancy Kathryn, and Kristina Wilson. Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period. MA: Worcester Art Museum, 2016.
Catalogue for an exhibition by the same name, including work by the author of this book and Jesseca Ferguson (Pinhole, Chapter 5) among others.
Eder, Josef Maria. History of Photography. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1978.
Gassan, Arnold. A Chronology of Photography: A Critical Survey of the History of Photography as a Medium of Art. Athens, OH: Handbook Co., 1972.
Gernsheim, Alison, and Helmut Gernsheim. Creative Photography. New York: Bonanza Books, 1962.
History from 1826–1962.
Gernsheim, Helmut. The Origins of Photography. Revised 3rd ed. New York: Thames on Hudson, Inc., 1983.
Gilbert, George. Photography: The Early Years. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1980.
Heckert, Virginia. Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Musuem, 2015.
Chapters on Marco Breuer (reproduction in Gum Printing chapter of this book) and other experimental artists.
Hirsh, Robert. Seizing the Light: A Social and Aesthetic History of Photography (3rd edition). Oxfordshire: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
If you see a book by Hirsh, you can count on it being clearly written and offering new ideas.
Holme, Bryan, ed. The Gallery of World Photography/Photography as Fine Art. New York: Dutton (1st American edition), 1983.
Three-part series of paperbacks with fine reproductions ranging from the obscure to the famous.
Ivins, William M., Jr. Prints and Visual Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978.
A significant text on the history and understanding of the relationship of photography to printmaking. Remember: like printmaking, photography started as documentation of the visible, as well as an image.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center. The Alternative Image. An Aesthetic and Technical Exploration of Nonconventional Photographic Printing Processes. Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1983.
Jones, Bernard, ed. Encyclopedia of Photography. New York: Arno, 1974.
Reprint of 1911 edition of Cassell’s Cyclopedia of Photography. Includes formulae. Available through Ayer Co. Publishers (www.ayerpub.com).
Jones, Bernard, ed. The Encyclopaedia of Early Photography. London: Bishopsgate Press, Ltd., 1985.
Jussim, Estelle. Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts: Photographic Technologies in the 19th Century. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox Education Company), 1974.
Furthers Ivins’s theories with insight into photomechanical processes and advertising.
Kasher, Steven. America and the Tintype. New York: International Center of Photography, 2008.
Catalogue of sensational images drawn from the permanent collection of the Center.
Kennel, Sarah, Dianne Wagoner, and Alice Carver-Cubik. In the Darkroom: An Illustrated Guide to Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2010.
From Talbot to Warhol, illustrated.
Kraus, Hans P., Jr., research and text by Larry J. Schaaf. Sun Pictures: The Harold White Collection of Works by William Henry Fox Talbot. New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs, 1987.
Lietze, Ernst. Modern Heliographic Processes. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1974.
Reprint of 1888 text, including formulae for brown and blue printing and toners for them.
McCabe, Constance. Steiglitz in the Darkroom. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1993.
Pamphlet includes microscopic blowups of Alfred Steiglitz’s different print techniques.
McDermott, David, Peter McGough, and Mark Alice Durant. A History of Photograpy. Arena Editions, 1998.
Salt prints, gum, palladium, and cyanotpes about contemporary culture.
Nadeau, Luis. Encyclopedia of Printing, Photographic, and Photomechanical Processes: Volumes 1 and 2. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1994.
Information on over 1,500 reproduction processes.
Persinger, Tom, ed. Photography Beyond Technique: Essays on the Informed Use of Alternative and Historical Photographic Processes. NY and London: Focal Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Chapters of and by Craig Barber (lead photograph, Platinum/Palladium chapter), France Scully Osterman (author, Salt Printing chapter), Mark Osterman (photo reproduced in salt printing chapter), Jessseca Ferguson (author, pinhole section), Jerry Sapgnoli (photograph in Becquerel/Daguerreotype chapter), and myself.
Rexer Lyle. Photography’s Antiquarian Avant Garde. The New Wave in Old Processes. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
Concentrates on practitioners of processes covered in this book.
Rinhart, Floyd, Marion Rinhart, and Robert W. Wagner. The American Tintype. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Most of the illustrations are in the Floyd and Marion Rinhard Collection at The Ohio State University.
Romer, Grant B., and Brian Wallis, eds. Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes. New York: ICP/ Steidl Publishing, 2005.
Catalogue from an exhibition about the 1845–1862 partners from Boston who photographed many notable Americans and scenes, such as Niagara Falls and Civil War volunteers in a downtown park. When you see essays by Romer (of the Eastman House Museum) or the insightful Wallis (from New York’s ICP), read them. You will be provoked, I am sure. Fascinating array of reproductions, and it’s not just because I live in the Boston area.
Sheehan, Tanya, and Andres Zervigon. Photography and Its Origins. New York: Routlege/Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
This collection of 16 original essays, illustrated with 32 color images, showcases prominent and emerging voices, such as Geoffrey Batchen and Dan Estabrook, in the field of photography studies. Really well done and worth reading.
Talbot, William Henry Fox. The Pencil of Nature. New York: DeCapo Press, 1969.
A facsimile of the 1844–1846 edition, with an introduction by photo historian Beaumont Newhall.
Time-Life Books. Caring for Photographs. New York: Time-Life Books, 1982.
Contains a chapter by George Tice on platinum printing.
Time-Life Books. Frontiers of Photography. New York: Time-Life Books, 1979.
Chapters on “Mixing the Media” and “Photography’s Changing Images.”
Time-Life Books. The Print. New York: Time-Life Books, 1982.
Chapters and great reproductions on “A Revolution in Printmaking.”
Towler, J. The Silver Sunbeam: A Practical and Theoretical Text Book on Sundrawing and Photographic Printing. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1969.
Reprint of 1864 edition.
Victoria and Albert Museum. Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography, Catalogue of display at the V&A South Kensington between 13 October 2010 and 20 February 2011.
Wall, Edward John, and Frederick James Mortimer. The Dictionary of Photography. Boston: American Photographic, 1938.
Ward, John, and Sara Stevenson. Printed Light: The Scientific Art of William Henry Fox Talbot and David Octavius Hill with Robert Adamson. Edinburgh: H.M.S.O. (for the) Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1986.
Wilde, Ann, and Jurgen Wilde, eds. Karl Blossfeldt: Working Collages. Cambridge, MA, and London: M.I.T. Press, 2001.
Translated from a Schirmer/Mosel edition in German. Brilliant turn-of-the-nineteenth-century proponent of the New Objectivity in German Photography also made contact print sheets of cyanotype images collaged with brown and gray photographic prints. Never before shown, and amazing!
Wilson, Edward Livingstone. Wilson’s Photographics. Reprint of 1881 ed. P.O. Box 958, Salem, NH: Ayer Co. Pub. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing LLC, 2007.
A series of lessons, accompanied by notes, of all the processes that are “needful in the art of photography.”
Witkin, Lee D., and Barbara London. The Photograph Collector’s Guide. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1980.
Zakia, Richard, and Leslie Stroebel. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. Boston and London: Focal Press, 2007.
Well-researched, comprehensive array of subjects and an explanation of just about anything you could want to know about photography from its beginning to digital. Extraordinarily reliable.
SELECTED CONTEMPORARY PRACTIONERS
Bowman, Stanley. Translations: Photographic Images with New Forms. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1979.
Reproductions of work by innovators Bea Nettles and Robert Fichter; important rejuvenators of historic processes Robert Heinecken, Joan Lyons, H. H. Smith, and Todd Walker; others.
Chadwick, Helen. Enfleshings. New York: Aperture Press, 1989.
Extraordinary use of liquid emulsion and photocopies in provocative installation by a British artist who died young.
Clark, Denis Miller. Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen. Chicago: Aperture/The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, 1993.
Clever pinhole photos.
Coe, Brian, and Mark Haworth-Booth. A Guide to Early Photographic Processes. London: Victoria and Albert Museum and Hurtwoood Press, 1984.
Coleman, A. D., and Lynn Warren, eds. Robert Heinecken: Photographist. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999.
Pictures of all major work in the 30-year career of this innovator and conceptual artist.
Dugdale, John. Lengthening the Shadows Before Nightfall. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 1995.
Reproductions of 8 × 10 in. cyanotypes.
Ess, Barbara. I Am Not This Body: Photographs by Barbara Ess. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2001.
Pinhole pictures.
Fuss, Adam. Pinhole Photographs. From the Photographers at Work Series, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Grundberg, Andy, and Robert Rosenblum. Mike and Doug Starn. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.
Inventive use of materials, from toned photo murals to ortho film as the image (see their work in Chapter 3).
Hitchcock, Barbara. The Polaroid Book. Los Angeles: Taschen America, 2008.
Comprehensive survey of the Polaroid Collection, showcasing over 400 artworks. Why did I fill out all the paperwork after being invited to add my work, then forget to mail it in? This book is terrific!
Hitchcock, Barbara, and Deborah Klochko. Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
Hoy, Anne H. Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988.
Graulich, Gerhard, Edgar Lissel Räume/Picture Rooms 1996–2000. Austria: EIKON Sonderdruck #5, Wien, 2000.
The artist has used entire rooms to construct pinhole cameras.
Luciana, James, and Judith Watts. The Art of Enhanced Photography: Beyond the Photographic Image. Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 1999.
Morell, Abelardo. A Camera in a Room, Smithsonian. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1995.
Pinhole black-and-white photographs.
Nettles, Bea. Flamingo in the Dark. Knights of Assissi, Turning Fifty are but a few of the self-published titles. Urban, IL: Inky Press.
Some are on demand at Lulu.com or www.beanettles.com or fax 217-337-0096.
O’Neil, Elaine, and Julia Hess. Mother Daughter: Posing as Ourselves. Rochester, NY: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2009.
Co-author of the toning chapter (page 59) this book contains selenium toned black-and-white photographs that span over two decades.
Spagnoli, Jerry. Jerry Spagnoli: Daguerreotypes. New York: Distributed Art Publications, Inc. 2006.
His work is featured in the daguerreotype chapter, page 285 of this book.
Walker, Todd. Todd Walker Photographs. Carmel, CA: Friends of Photography, 1985.
Known for a lifetime of innovative printmaking, especially gum printing (Chapter 10).
SELECTED GENERAL HOW-TO BOOKS
Airey, Theresa. Creative Photo-Printmaking. New York: Amphoto Books, 1996.
Anderson, Christina. Alternative Processes Condensed. Bozeman: Self-published, 2007. www.alternativephotography.com.
Anderson, Christina. Experimental Photography Workbook, Fourth Edition. Bozeman: Self-published, 2005. www.alternativephotgraphy.com.
Fifty-plus processes, student work examples.
Anderson, Christina. Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes. Bozeman: Self-published, 2013.
Not only gum, but also casein, kallitype, and others. Impeccable technical information. Great sense of humor!
Arnow, Jan. Handbook of Alternative Photographic Processes. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982.
Over thirty processes. One of the first of the contemporary how-to books.
Baldwin, Gordon. Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms. Los Angeles and London: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Museum Press, 1991.
Barnier, John, ed. Coming into Focus: A Step-by-Step Guide to Alternative Photographic Printing Processes. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000.
One of the only available contemporary descriptions on daguerreotypes before my chapter.
Crawford, William. The Keepers of Light: A History and Working Guide to Early Photographic Processes. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, Inc., 1979.
History and detailed directions on gum, blue, brown, and other processes. Not only did this book help me technically, but it also still is full of relevant history and theory.
Ctein. Post Exposure: Advanced Techniques for the Photographic Printer (2nd edition). Boston: Focal Press, 2000.
Enfield, Jill. Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques (2nd edition). Oxford, UK: Focal Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
I do not know of a better artist to clearly explain albumin (with a recipe for what do to with unused egg yolks!) wet plate collodion, and photo-images on ceramics, just for starters.
Enfield, Jill. Photo Imaging: A Complete Guide to Alternative Processes. New York: Amphoto, 2002.
Many techniques, including tintype and kallitype.
Farber, Richard. Historic Photographic Processes. New York: Allworth Press, 1998.
Flynn, Deborah. Imaging with Light Sensitive Materials. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1978.
Frederick, Peter. Creative Sunprinting. Boston and London: Focal Press, 1980.
Gassan, Arnold. Handbook for Contemporary Photographers. Boston, MA: Thompson Delmar Learning, 2005.
Chapters on black-and-white, color, and nonsilver (photo-printing) techniques and on color critiquing.
Hattersley, Ralph. Photographic Printing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977.
Chapters on duplicating film, photographic silkscreen printing, special-effects screens, cyanotype, negative and print retouching and coloring, and mural prints.
Hindley, Geoffrey. Working with Light-Sensitive Materials. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978.
Hirsh, Robert. Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials, and Processes (3rd edition). Burlington, MA: Focal Press. 2009.
Mostly about black-and-white photography, but chapters on toning, widely used alternative processes, and altering photographic concepts. He is one of the most reliably inspiring authors.
Horenstein, Henry. The Photographer’s Source. New York: Pond Press/Simon & Schuster, 1989.
This catalogue of equipment, workshops, services, etc. also includes chapters on hand-coloring, pinhole, and nonsilver processes.
House, Suda. Artistic Photographic Processes. New York: Amphoto Books, 1985.
Howell-Koehler, Nancy. Photo Art Processes. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1984.
Kodak Publications. Creative Darkroom Techniques. Rochester, NY: Kodak Publications, 1974.
Gum, photo-silkscreen, toning, and other special effects.
Kosar, Jaromir. Light Sensitive Systems: Chemistry and Application of Non-Silver/Halide Photographic Processes. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1965.
Nettles, Bea. Breaking the Rules: A Photomedia Cookbook, Third Edition. Box 725, Urbana, IL: Inky Press, 1992.
Assumes reader knows black-and-white darkroom technique, but many color reproductions of this influential artist’s work. www.beanettles.com/bookorder.
Newman, Thelma R. Innovative Printmaking. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1977.
Two- and three-dimensional prints; photo and nonphoto methods with and without a printing press. Another of the early contemporary books.
Reed, Martin, and Randall Webb. Alternative Photographic Processes: A Working Guide for Image Makers. Sterling Publishers, 2000.
Reed, Martin, and Randal Webb. Spirits of Salt. London: Argentum Press, 1999.
Reeve, Catherine, and Marilyn Sward. The New Photography: A Guide to New Images, Processes, and Display Techniques for Photographers. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Spectrum/Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Handmade paper and alternative processes, interview with artist Robert Heinekin.
Stone, Jim. Darkroom Dynamics: A Guide to Creative Darkroom Techniques. Boston: Focal Press, 1979.
Chapters on high-contrast negatives, Liquid Light, toning, hand-coloring.
Stroebel, Leslie, and Richard Zakia, eds. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Third Edition. Boston: Focal Press, 2007.
Nine hundred pages from over 90 experts describing processes from antique to digital photography, including four pages on “nonsilver processes” by Judy Natal.
Van Keuren, Sarah. A Non-Silver Manual. Lansdowne, PA: Self-published, 2004. Updated and free from her website
Includes instructions for alternative processes and pinhole photography, with supply prices. Not for beginners. Available from the author at 6 Hereford Place, Lansdowne, PA 19050, or from Photo-Eye or http://www.alternativephotography.com/non-silver-manual/.
Wade, Kent. Alternative Photographic Processes. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1978.
Imaging on glass, metal, fabric, tile, etc. This is a hard-to-find book full of ideas and information.
SPECIFIC PROCESSES
TRANSFERS AND LIFTS
Baker, Robert, and Barbara London. Instant Projects. Cambridge, MA: Polaroid, 1986, 1992.
Handbook of demonstrations, including building pinhole and stereo cameras and making separation negatives for casein and gum printing. You don’t need Polaroid materials to use this book, and it contains inspired lesson plans for teachers.
Schminke, Karin, Dorothy Simpson Krause, and Bonny Pierce Lhotka. Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Artist’s Materials. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2004.
Clear and useful instructions; most complete book that I know of on the subject.
Tourtillot, Suzanne. The New Photo Crafts. Photo Transfer Techniques and Projects for Fabric, Paper, Wood, Polymer Clay, and More. New York: Lark Books, 2001.
TONING AND HAND COLORING
Airy, Theresa. Creative Digital Printmaking. New York: Amphoto Books, 2001.
Section on hand coloring digital prints.
Anchell, Steve. The Variable Contrast Printing Manual. Boston: Focal Press, 1996.
Explanation of reason, methods, and hints for toning plus appendix containing some recipes for mixing toners from scratch.
Davidson, Jerry. From Black and White to Creative Color. Ontario, Canada: Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1994.
Davidson, Jerry. Light Up Your Darkroom: How to Tone, Tint, and Retouch Black-and-White Prints. Markham, Ontario, Canada: Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1987. Published with the assistance of Berg Color-Tone, Inc.
Dorskind, Cheryl Machet. The Art of Handpainting Photographs. New York: Amphoto Books, 1998.
Thorough description of subtly applying oil-based colors.
Henisch, Heinz K., and Bridget A. Henisch. The Painted Photograph 1839–1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
Over-painting employed in daguerreotypes, tintypes, porcelain, glass, lantern slides, and textiles.
Laird, Sandra, and Carey Chambers. Handcoloring Photographs: Step by Step. Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media, 1997.
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. The Chemistry of Photography. St. Louis, MO: Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, 1940.
This wire-bound, hardcover book, which cost 50 cents then, contains 16 pages of formulae still applicable today for “changing the neutral black image to a more pleasing or more appropriate color.”
Marshall, Lucille Robertson. Photo-Oil Coloring for Fun or Profit. Washington, DC: Larum Pub. Co., 1964.
Could she be related to the founders of Marshall’s photo oils?
Martin, Judy, and Annie Colbeck. Handtinting Photographs. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 1989.
McKinnis, James. Hand Coloring Photographs. New York: Amphoto Books, 1994.
Showcases color reproductions from many commercial artists and techniques different from mine—he recommends using colors straight out of the tube, but I say don’t trust anyone else to manufacture the color you want.
McKinnis, James A. Photo Painting, The Art of Painting on Photographs. New York: Amphoto Books, 2002.
Murray, Elizabeth. Painterly Photography: Awakening the Artist Within. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993.
Polaroid SX-70 manipulated pictures.
Newman, Richard. Toning Techniques for Photographic Prints Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media, 2002.
Rudman, Tim. The Photographer’s Toning Book: The Definitive Guide. New York: Amphoto, 2003.
Sepia, tea, and other non-commercial toners, etc.
Sanderson, Andrew. Hand Colouring and Alternative Processes: B & W Photo Lab. Switzerland: RotoVision SA, 2002.
Schaub, Grace, and George Schaub. Marshall’s Hand-Coloring Guide and Gallery: The Tools and Techniques Using Marshall’s Materials. Chicago, IL: G & G Schaub Publishers and John G. Marshall Co., a division of Brandess/Kalt/Aetna Group, Inc., 1994.
Wall, Alfred H. A Manual of Artistic Colouring as Applied to Photographs. Reprint of 1860 ed. P.O. Box 938, Salem, NH: Ayer Co. Pub., 2009.
A practical guide to artists and photographers.
Winser, Cheryl. The Art of Hand Coloring Photography. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 1995.
Out of print, so hard to get.
Worobiec, Tony. Toning and Handcoloring Photographs. New York: Amphoto Books, 2002.
GENERATING IMAGES: ANALOGUE METHOD
Anschell, Steve. The Darkroom Cookbook (2nd edition). Boston: Focal Press, 2000.
Duren, Lista, and Billy McDonald. Build Your Own Home Darkroom. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982.
Holter, Patra. Photography Without a Camera (2nd edition). L.I.R. Box 429, Yonkers, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980.
Great ideas for experimental photographers and teachers on a limited budget. Out of print, but can be purchased.
Hutchings, Gordon. The Book of Pyro. Granite Bay, CA: Bitter Dog Press, 1992.
Available from Bostick & Sullivan, this detailed manual tells all about one of the oldest developing agents treasured by large-format photographers.
Seely, J. High Contrast. Boston: Focal Press, 1980.
Wall, E. J., and F. L. Jordan. Photographic Facts and Formulas. Reprint of 1940 text. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Tables, formulae.
Wilks, Brady. Alternative Photographic Processes: Crafting Handmade Images. Burlington, MA and Oxford, GB: Focal Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015.
Fun book that covers installation, darkroom manipulations, office copier options, and more.
Zimmerman, Philip. Options for Color Separations: An Artist’s Handbook. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1980.
Bountiful ideas for photographers and nonphotographers for making negatives. Unfortunately, out of print, but well worth looking for a used copy.
Pinhole
Chernewski, Anita. How-To Make Three Corrugated 8 × 10 Pinhole Cameras: Wide-angle, Normal, Telephoto. Pinhole Format Co., 1999.
Instructions and materials included.
Evans, John. Adventures with Pinhole and Home-Made Cameras: From Tin Cans to Precision Engineering. East Sussex, England: RotoVision, 2003. www.rotovision.com.
Jesseca Ferguson says: Good overview of contemporary pinhole/eccentric cameras and the images they produce.
Renner, Eric. Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique (3rd edition). Boston: Focal Press, 2004.
Jesseca Ferguson says: Wonderfully comprehensive overview of pinhole photo from the editor/founder of Pinhole Journal; lots of pinhole photos, history, “how-to” section, etc. A must!
Shull, Jim. The Beginner’s Guide to Pinhole Photography. Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media, Inc., 1999.
This is the latest version of Shull’s classic how-to pinhole book, Hole Thing Manual. Incredibly clear and helpful. (L.B.) Can purchase from www.icp.com.
Smith, Lauren. The Visionary Pinhole. Salt Lake City: Peregine Smith Books, 1985.
DIGITAL NEGATIVES
Burkholder, Dan. The New Inkjet Negative Companion-Digital Negatives Made Easy. 2013. http://www.danburkholder.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html.
Chavez, Conrad. Real World Adobe Photoshop CS5: Industrial Strength Production Techniques. Berkely, CA: Peachpit Press, 2010.
So clear and close to current versions of Photoshop®.
Farace, Joe. Getting Started with Digital Imaging: Tips, Tools, and Techniques. Boston: Focal Press, 2006.
Includes a CD-ROM of all steps outlined in the book.
Nelson, Mark I. Precision Digital Negatives.
This is an illustrated electronic book that you can purchase and download at www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com. Specifically for the processes in this book and more.
CYANOTYPE
Fabbri, Malin, and Gary Fabbri. Blueprint to Cyanotypes: Exploring a Historical Alternative Photographic Process. Self-published, 2006. www.alternativephotography.com/books.
Hewitt, Barbara. Blueprints on Fabric. Loveland, CO: Interveave Press, 1995.
Lots of direct methods for making images. From the former owner of Blueprints-Printables, www.blueprintables.com.
Ware, Mike. Cyanotype: The History, Science and Art of Photographic Printing in Prussian Blue. London: Science Museum and National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, 2004.
From the chemist and practitioner who invented a new cyanotype process comes a book of history and information. Now a collector’s item.
BROWN PRINTING
Stevens, Dick. Making Kallitypes. Boston: Focal Press, 1993.
GUM BICHROMATE
Gassan, Arnold. The Color Print Book. Rochester, NY: Light Impressions Corp., 1981.
Information on color separation negatives, gum bichromate, and Kwik Printing included with other subjects.
Lewis, Eleanor, ed. Darkroom. New York: Lustrum Press, 1977.
Chapter on contemporary artist Betty Hahn and her gum prints.
Nadeau, Luis. Gum Bichromate and Other Direct Carbon Processes. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1987.
Scopick, David. The Gum Bichromate Book (2nd edition). Boston: Focal Press, 1991.
Extensive instructions, including negative prep, color separation techniques, and Kwik Printing, in addition to 15 step-by-step instructions on the gum printing process.
Whipple, Leyland. The Gum Bichromate Printing Process. Rochester, NY: George Eastman House, 1964.
Wilson, Helena Chapellin. “Gum Bichromate Printing,” Darkroom Techniques (June 1981), pp. 40–44.
PLATINUM/PALLADIUM PRINTING
Arentz, Dick. Platinum & Palladium Printing. Boston: Focal Press, 2000.
Nadeau, Luis. The History and Practice of Platinum Printing. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1994.
The first printing of this revised edition in English has a tipped-in platinum print. German language edition published by Lindemanns Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.
Rexroth, Nancy. The Platinotype (2nd edition). Yellow Springs, OH: Violet Press and Photographers’ Formulary Press, 1977.
Now a collector’s item.
Rice, Ted. Palladium Printing, Made Easy. Santa Fe, NM: Eagle Eye Text Production, 1994.
Detailed instructions on chemistry, negative-making, paper, processing, and finishing for palladium prints. Includes advanced palladium techniques such as toning and the use of different developers. Available only through Photo-Eye. Watch for Rice’s forthcoming book on platinum printing from 35mm and color negatives.
Shillea, Thomas John. Instruction Manual for the Platinum Printing Process. Philadelphia: Eastern Light Photography Ltd., 1986.
Precise instructions, carefully researched with safety data, available from Photographers’ Formulary.
Sullivan, Richard S. Labnotes. Van Nuys, CA: Bostick and Sullivan, 1982.
Readable and funny instructions on platinum, palladium, and Kallitype, plus generally helpful tips on coating, exposure calculation, brushes. From half of the Bostick & Sullivan team.
Sullivan, Richard, and Carl Weese. The New Platinum Print. Santa Fe, NM: Working Picture Press, 1998. www.bostick-sullivan.com.
Also contains instructions for digital negatives.
BROMOIL
Laughter, Gene. Basic and Advanced Bromoil Inking (video). Available from Photo-Eye and Bostick & Sullivan.
Laughter, Gene. Bromoil 101: A Plain English Working Manual and User’s Guide for Beginners in the Bromoil Process. Self-published, 1997.
Available from Photo-Eye Books and Bostick & Sullivan.
Lewis, David W. The Art of Bromoil and Transfer. Ontario: Self-published, 1995.
Available through Photo-Eye Books and Photographers’ Formulary (see Supply Sources; out-of print, but can try www.abebooks.com).
Nadeau, Luis. History and Practice of Oil and Bromoil Printing. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1985.
ENLARGEMENT EMULSIONS
Eastman Kodak. Making a Photographic Emulsion. Rochester, NY: Pamphlet #AJ-12, 1936. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2110491.html
Morgan & Morgan. The Morgan & Morgan Darkroom Book. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1980.
Includes a chapter on “Liquid Light.”
Reed, Martin, and Sarah Jones. Silver Gelatin. New York: Amphoto Books, 1996.
Not a stone left unturned in this text, including mixing enlargement emulsions (Chapter 14 of New Dimensions) from scratch.
DAGGUEREOTYPE
How to Make a Daguerreotypes. Embree Press, 1991.
Out of print, but worth looking for.
Sobieszek, Robert A., ed. The Daguerreotype Process: Three Treatises, 1840–1849. New York: Arno Press, 1973.
HYBRID PHOTO AND CHROMOSKEDASIC
Neblette, C. B. Neblette’s Handbook of Photography and Reprography: Materials, Processes and Systems. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977.
One of the few I know of besides this one with instructions on how to paint chromoskedasically.
SALT PRINTING
Anderson, Christine Z. Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Reilly, James M. The Albumen and Salted Paper Book. Rochester, NY: Light Impressions Corp., 1980.
RELATED PROCESSES
Bunnell, Peter. Non-Silver Photographic Processes: Four Selections, 1886–1927. New York: Arno Press, A New York Times Company, 1973.
Reprint of original manuscript on photogravure, gum bichromate (by DeMachy), oil and bromoil processes, and platinotype (platinum print).
Croner, Marjorie. Fabric Photos. Loveland, CO: Interweave Press, 1989.
Davies, Adrian. Focal Digital Imaging A to Z. Boston: Focal Press, 2005.
Reasonably priced paperback with over 1,000 definitions and explanations. Supported by updated website.
Davies, Adrian, and Fennessy, Phil. An Introduction to Electronic Imaging for Photographers. Boston: Focal Press, 1998.
Electronic imaging in down-to-earth language. Includes copyright-free CD-ROM, playable on both Macintosh and IBM computers.
Ephraims, Eddie. Creative Elements: Darkroom Techniques for Landscape Photography. New York: Amphoto Books, 1993.
Greene, Alan. Primitive Photography: A Guide to Making Cameras, Lenses, and Calotypes. Boston and London: Focal Press, 2002.
Haffer, Virna. Making Photograms: Creative Process of Painting with Light. New York: Hasting House/Amphoto Books, 1969.
Hedgecoe, Johen. The Photographer’s Handbook. New York: Alfred P. Knopf, 1995.
A brief explanation of everything photographic from A (ambrotype) to Z (zoom lenses).
Koenig, Karl P. Gumoil Photographic Printing. Rev. ed. Boston: Focal Press, 1999.
Kolb, Gary P. Photogravure: A Process Handbook. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Laury, Jean Ray. Imagery on Fabric. Lafayette, CA: C&T Publishing, 1992.
Nadeau, Luis. Modern Carbon Printing. Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1986.
Robinson, Henry Peach, and Abney Wivelesley. The Art and Practice of Silver Printing. New York: Arno Press, 1973.
An 1881 reprint.
Sims, Ami. Creating Scrapbook Quilts. Flint, MI: Mallary Press, 1993.
Sobieszek, Robert A., ed. The Collodion Process and the Ferrotype: Three Accounts, 1854–1872. New York: Ayers Co., 1973.
Reprint of 1911 text.
Towler, John. The Silver Sunbeam. New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1974.
Textbook on sun drawing and photographic printing. Wet and dry processes, with collodion, albumen, gelatine, wax, resin, and silver.
Victoria and Albert Museum. Camera-less photography: Techniques.
Information on and wonderful examples of photogram (Chapter 5), chemigram (chromoskedasik) (Chapter 16), lumen (Chapter 16).
Worobiec, Tory, Ray Spence, and Tony Worobiec. Photo Art: In-Camera/Darkroom/Digital/Mixed Media. New York: Amphoto Books, 2003, and London: Collins and Brown Limited, 2003.
Multiple printing, infrared, toning, pinhole, scanner as camera.
“BRICK AND MORTAR” ORGANIZATIONS
Alchemy Studio
Phoenix, AZ
Workshops in Italy and Arizona.
Art Students League of Denver
200 Grant Street
Denver, CO 80203
Loads of workshops for all abilities, such as pinhole, tintype, glass plate, etc.
Glen Echo Park Photoworks
Glen Eco Park, MD
Situated in the amusement park I loved as a child(!), this group rents both analogue and digital community darkrooms, offers free coffee and critiques, employs teachers like Jonathan Goell for still life and Mac Cosgrove-Davies and Scott Davis in Historic Processes, plus many digital courses.
Gruppo Rodolfo Namias
Via Argonne 4
Parma, Italy
Care of the Circolo Fotografico Il Grandangolo
Founded in 1991, their beautifully designed web site, with information in several languages, states that they meet regularly at different sites. They share recipes, exhibitions, etc.
Penumbra Foundation
36 East 30th Street, NYC
http://www.penumbrafoundation.org
Non-profit with workshops, library, lectures, residencies, studio rental, tintype studio. Houses the Center for Alternative Photography.
Alternative Photographic Supplies Training Centre
34 Wierzbowa Street,
Gdynia, Poland
http://www.photoworkshops.pl/?p=59
Heavy on the nude (that means: female) pictures, but lots of alt process technique workshops.
MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
Camera Arts
The magazine folded, but maybe your library kept copies of its quality reproductions, darkroom and digital articles, and equipment and product reviews.
Camera and Darkroom Photography
It was good while it lasted. Your library may have old issues.
Fiberarts
Completely online at http://fiberartnow.net
Geared toward artists/craftspersons, the magazine has published articles on photo-printing on fabric and related subjects.
Photo Techniques (formerly Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques)
Website: www.phototechmag.com
They ceased publishing in 2013, but they still publish articles on subjects such as casein (Chapter 11 of this book) and light painting, etc. Bimonthly, usually with one article related to photo-printmaking.
View Camera Magazine
Website: http://www.viewcamera.com
Although no longer being published, “the journal of large-format photography” promises to send you, if you subscribe, six of the most recent issues, and the website shows current articles, workshops, and more.
The World Journal of Post-Factory Photography
Post Factory Press
61 Morton Street
New York, NY 10014
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Post/post.html
Edited by knowledgeable, spunky, and humorous Judy Siegel. Each issue focused on a process and examined its contemporary practice, history, and abundant technical information. No longer printed, but you can find past issue at the unblinkingeye. Do not miss it!
INTERNET
Alt-Photo-Process @Vast.unsw.edu.au
Printer and author Luis Nadeau recommends this site, which seems to stop at 1995, but is a trove of information.
http://www.albumen.stanford.edu
A whole lot on the albumen process, including a demonstration and literature.
www.alternativephotography.com
Articles and how-tos, books, chat, gallery, technical information, processes, and suppliers. Almost inconceivable that one person can organize so much excellent information, but every printer I know goes to this site and supports it.
Analogue Photography Users Group, with forum, traditional and historic photo processes, classified ads.
For information in the United States about the Alternative Photographic International Symposium (APIS).
cdags.org
Contemporary daguerreotypy, including New Daguerreian Journal, gallery, technology for sale, workshops, safety, blog, etc.
http:home.earthlink.net/~trans40/hopperlist
A master list of bromoil websites on the Internet may be found here.
Center for Alternative and Historic Processes. Workshops in New York City. No digital.
Website of the Daguerrereian Society, 3043 West Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15216-2460. Tel: 412-343-5525. Bi-monthly newsletter, symposium.
“Portal to the world of contemporary daguerreotypes—the people who make them and how it is done.”
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/articles.html
This web site is a treasure! A how-to, who’s-out-there, and where-do-I-find it website.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/adw/adw.asp
Collection of 13,000 end-of-the-nineteenth-century historic architectural photos from the first president of Cornell University, Andrew White, including albumen, wet collodion, albums of the Middle East, gargoyles and grotesques, and travel pictures taken across the U.S., Mexico, and the Middle East.
http://www.usask.ca/lists/alt-photo-process-l/
Goes way back with archived articles, from university of Saskatchewan, Canada
The non-profit Photographic Historical Society of New England offers a terrific yearly sale of old equipment (Photographica), monthly meetings with lecturers (I was one), and annual journal.
http://www.mikeware.co.uk/mikeware/Resources.html
The inventor of the new cyanotype process maintains a web site with alt photo paper and chemical suppliers, instructions for processes, free book downloads, other websites, lists and forums, collections, and much, much more.
SOME PINHOLE WEBSITES
HEALTH AND SAFETY
If you have questions about materials you are handling, call your local Department of Public Health. Other organizations you can contact are:
The Art and Creative Materials Institute
An international association of about 200 art, craft, and creative material manufacturers. Their AP (Approved Product) Seal identifies art materials that are safe and that are certified in a toxicological evaluation and The CL (Cautionary Labeling) Seal identifies products that are certified to be properly labeled. Located at Duke University’s Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety
181 Thompson Street, #23
New York, NY 10012
http://www.artscraftstheatersafety.org
ACTS is a not-for-profit corporation that provides health, safety, industrial hygiene, technical services, and safety publications to the arts, crafts, museums, and theater communities. The Museum School, where I teach, has hired president, founder, chemist, and artist Monona Rossol to inspect the photography facility. Publishes a monthly newsletter updating health and safety issues by the Rossol, co-author of the authoritative book Overexposure, listed below.
Ilford 24-Hour Emergency Response Hotline
http://www.ilfordphoto.com/healthandsafety/default.asp
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) in many languages.
Website: www.msdssearch.com
Contains information on health effects of exposure and safety precautions, such as storage, handling, and emergency procedures related to a chemical product.
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safely (CCOHS)
Not only personal protective equipment and physical problems, but also mental health topics.
OSHA (Office of Safety and Health Administration)
This U. S. Government office has lent impressive help over the years, especially to workers (at art schools, too!) who have filed complaints. A–Z index. Publications Office also, at Room N-3101, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210.
BOOKS
McCann, Michael. Artist Beware. New York: Lyons & Buford, 1992.
McCann, Michael. Health Hazards Manual for Artists. New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1985.
Shaw, Susan, and Monona Rossol. Overexposure: Health Hazards in Photography (2nd edition). New York: Allworth Press, 1991.
Absolutely the most thorough, well-organized book on health, safety, and legal issues about photography. Should be required reading in order to make intelligent and informed choices about your materials and procedures. In the United States, call the authors’ hotline with questions: 212-777-0062.