A comprehensive textbook, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer explores the ways in which the materiality and science of photography and aesthetic concepts of contemporary photography can work together in an accessible way. The book explores processes such as calotype, wet plate collodion, cyanotype, platinum and palladium, gum bichromate and digital. It explains not only the historical context behind these processes but draws on examples from contemporary practitioners to show how the processes can be used within the field of contemporary photography.
Author Morgan Post exemplifies the creative ways in which a contemporary photographer can engage with alternative process photography as a beginner and includes contributions from Takashi Arai, Alida Rodrigues, Binh Danh, Diana H. Bloomfield and many others from around the world. The textbook is accompanied by a companion website offering accessible step-by-step video instructions that demonstrate the processes explored.
Bridging analogue and digital media, the textbook is ideal for students of photography and amateur photographers with an interest in alternative methods to photography.
Author(s): Morgan Post
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 317
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1 Contemporary Artists and Methods
Part I: Lens(less)-Based Imagemakers
The Pinhole Effect
Heather Oelklaus
Stephanie L. Paine
Jennifer Crane
Silver-Salt: Calotype
Dan Estabrook
Wlodek Witek
Silver-Amalgam: Daguerreotype
Binh Danh
Jerry Spagnoli
Takashi Arai
The Niepceotype/Hyalotype Process: Dror Maayan
Silver-Salt: Wet Plate Collodion
Quinn Jacobson
Rashod Taylor
Luther Gerlach
Silver-Salt: Gelatin Dry Plate
Amy Burke
Nejc Urankar
Artist Biographies and Supplemental Information: Part I
Chapter 1: Part II Print(less) Contemporary Imagemakers
Silver Halide: Salt Printing
Melitte Buchman
Gary Edward Blum
Silver Halide: Albumen
Alida Rodrigues
Silver Halide: Silver-Gelatin
Kimberly Anderson
John Beaver
Maria Martinez-Cañas
Iron-Iron: The Cyanotype
Diane Deery Richards
Kümei Kirschmann
Iron-Uranium: Uranotype
Bob Kiss
Nick Russell and Charles Witherspoon
Iron-Platinum and Palladium: Platinotype, Palladiotype and Ziatype
Anne Eder
Antonio Turok
Pradip Malde
Iron-Silver: Brown Print
Roberto Huarcaya
Rosario Martinez-Cañas
Hexavalent Chromium
Diana H. Bloomfield
Rodney F. James
Tony Gonzalez
Digital Capture and Reproduction
Alan Greene
Luciana Quagliato McClure
Artist Biographies and Supplemental Information: Part II
2 Introduction to Radiant Energy
Waves and Color
Characteristics of Photographic Spectral Sensitivity
Chemical and Material Considerations
Colloids
Covalent and Ionic (Electrovalent) Bonds
Photographic Specific Terms
Additive Primary Colors
Positives
Negatives
Exposure
Developers
Silver Halide: Calotype
Making a Calotype
Substrate
Iodizing
Exciting
Exposure
Development
Fixing
Post-processing Options
Conservation and Image Degradation
Silver Amalgam: Daguerreotype
Process in Protest
Making a Daguerreotype
Substrate
Buffing
Chemical Fuming Options
Exposure
Development
Fixing
Gilding
Conservation and Image Degradation
Silver Halide: Wet Plate Collodion
Fundamentals of Wet Plate Collodion
Substrates
Components of the Salted Collodion Solution
Silver Bath
Exposure
Developing Agents
Washing
Fixing
Digitizing
Varnishing
Conservation and Image Degradation
Silver Halide: Gelatin Dry Plate
Genesis of Silver-Gelatin Technology
Genesis of Silver-Gelatin Developing Agents
Gelatin Dry Plate Considerations
Substrate
Making the Colloidal Suspension
Precipitation
Ripening Part I
Application With Nitrates
Noodling
Ripening Part II
Coating
Speed and ISO
Exposure
Development
Fixing
Conservation and Image Degradation
Digital Media: Light-Based Technologies
Digital Light Capture Technology
Types of Digital Sensors
Digital to Analog Print Media
Internegatives
Aspect Ratios and Resolving Power
Digital Negatives
Concepts of Making Digital Negatives and Positives
Making a Digital Negative
Base and Fog (B + Fog)
Establishing White and Black Points
Correction Curve Option
Ink Output Option
Conservation and Image Degradation
3 Introduction to Print Media
Condensed Timeline: Early Western Experiments With Light-Sensitive Materials
Reactions
Single Salt Combinations
Double Salt Combinations
Redox
Transition, Noble and Base Metals
Iron Compounds
Other Metal Compounds
Silver
Iron
Palladium
Platinum
Gold
Chromium
Sizing
Additional Photo Specific Terms
Subtractive Primary Colors
Positives
Exposure
Silver Printing Out Processes (POPs), Salt Albumen, Collodio and Gelatin Chloride
Separate Solutions of Chloride and Silver
Single Solution of Silver Chloride
Technological Advancements of Salt Printing
Technological Advancements of Albumen Printing
Technological Advancements of Collodio Chloride
Technological Advancements of Gelatin Chloride
Sizing: Pretreatment of Absorbent Substrates
Chloride Salts
Salt Printing Methodology
Application of Sizing Material
Application of Silver
Albumen Printing Methodology
Ripening and Surface Types
Application of Sizing Material
Application of Silver
Collodio Chloride: Silver Chloride in an Organic Colloidal Dispersion
Considerations of Collodion
Collodio Chloride Methodology
Sizing
Application
Gelatin Chloride: Silver Chloride in a Hydrolyzed Collagen Colloidal Dispersion
Consideration of Gelatin Chloride
Precipitation
Ripening
Sizing
Coating
Processing Baths for Salt, Albumen, Collodio and Gelatin Chloride
Characteristics of Silver Chloride Toning
Noble Metal Toning Before Fixing
Gold Fixer Toning
Conservation and Image Degradation
Iron-Iron: Cyanotype
Genesis of the Cyanotype
Cyanotype Methodologies
Characteristics of Traditional Cyanotype Sensitizing Solutions
Characteristics of Ware Cyanotype Sensitizing Solution
Application
Exposure
Processing Setup
Toning
Reducing Agents
Redeveloping Agents
Tannic Acid Types
Combination Printing Possibilities
Conservation and Image Degradation
Iron-Platinum, Palladium: The Platino, Palladio and Associated Types
Genesis of the Platinotype and Palladiotype
Characteristics of Platinum and Palladium Processes
The Traditional Platinum and Palladium Developing Out Process
The Sensitizing Solutions
Application
Exposure
Developers
Processing Setup
Toning
Combination Printing Possibilities
Conservation and Image Degradation
Iron-Silver: The Argentotype, Brown Print, Argyrotype and Kallitype
Genesis of Iron-Silver Processes
Characteristics of the (Van Dyke) Brown Printing Out Process
Kallitype Process Considerations
Characteristics of the Kallitype Developing Out Process
Sensitizing Solutions
Application
Exposure
Processing Setup
Characteristics of Silver-Iron Toning
Combination Printing Possibilities
Conservation and Image Degradation
Hexavalent Chromium in a Colloidal Dispersion: Gum Dichromate
Early Evolution of Chromium-Based Processes
Gum Dichromate Characteristics and Process Considerations
The Sensitizer
Sizing With Paper
Registration
Application
Exposure
Development
Clearing
Combination Printing Possibilities
Conservation and Image Degradation
Digital Reproduction
Condensed Timeline of Photographic Transmitted Reproduction
Concepts of Digital Printing
File Management
Color Management, Color Spaces, Color Profiles and the RGB Color Model
Common Substrates
Other Types of Substrates
Output Options
Post-printing Surface Treatments
Conservation and Image Degradation
Chapter 3: Sources
4 Photography and Community
Ryann Casey
Riham Majeed
Kong Nai
Thomas Werner, Thomas Werner Projects
Pablo Farias, Bats´i Lab
Geoffrey Berliner, the Penumbra Foundation
Elizabeth Greenberg, Maine Media Workshops + College
Works Cited
Index
