In a wide-ranging and open manner, Photographic Possibilities surveys what today’s alternative imagemak-ers are actually doing in the field, something different from the ordinary, in terms of apparatus, materials, processes, representation concepts, and notions of creativity. Additionally, the text provides a historical background about the major processes it covers. Unfamiliar terms are defined upon their first use. Resource Guides of additional sources of information and supplies, including Websites, are included at the end of subject sections whenever appropriate.
The book’s art program presents a stimulating survey of works by over 150 contemporary photographers from around the world, which illuminate, not illustrate, concepts and methods discussed in the book. Images were curated through an international work call and also by contacting specific artists. Each imagemaker was asked a series of question about the thinking and working methods they employed to realize their vision. This information was distilled into captions, which allows the makers to speak directly to the readers.
Author(s): Robert Hirsch
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Focal Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 301
Tags: Библиотека;Досуг;Фотография;
Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Contributors to Photographic Possibilities......Page 16
The Language of Photography......Page 18
Concepts and Technology Affecting Photographic Printmaking......Page 20
Extending Photographic Boundaries......Page 38
Electronic Imaging: New Ways of Seeing......Page 43
Possessing a Sense of History......Page 44
Photographic Origins......Page 46
Thinking within a System......Page 47
Purposes of Photography......Page 52
Essential Safety Guidelines......Page 54
Contact Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities and Poison Control......Page 56
Disposing of Chemistry......Page 57
Water for Photographic Processes......Page 58
Film and the Photographer......Page 60
General Film Processing Procedures......Page 61
Infrared Black-and-White Film......Page 63
Extended Red Sensitivity Film......Page 66
High-Speed Black-and-White Films......Page 67
Heightening Grain and Contrast......Page 71
High-Contrast Litho Films......Page 72
Paper Negatives and Positives: Contemporary Calotypes......Page 75
Reversing Black-and-White Film......Page 76
Processing Black-and-White Film for Permanence......Page 78
Digital Negative Making: An Overview......Page 79
Scanners......Page 83
Basic Equipment......Page 88
Chemicals......Page 90
Preparing Formulas......Page 91
US Customary Weights and Metric Equivalents......Page 93
Image Characteristics of Film......Page 96
Components and Characteristics of Black-and-White Developers......Page 98
Basic Developer Types......Page 102
Postdevelopment Procedures......Page 104
Film Developer Formulas and their Applications......Page 107
Is All this Necessary?......Page 120
The Analog Fine Printmaking Process......Page 122
Printing Equipment......Page 125
Standard Printing Materials......Page 133
Print Finishing......Page 138
Special Printing Materials......Page 140
Processing Prints for Permanence......Page 144
Components of Black-and-White Silver Print Developers......Page 146
Additional Processing Factors......Page 148
Controlling Contrast During Development......Page 150
Matching Developer and Paper......Page 151
Developer Applications and Characteristics......Page 152
Other Paper Developer Formulas......Page 157
Basic Types of Toners......Page 164
Processing Prints to be Toned......Page 165
General Working Procedures for Toners......Page 167
Brown Toners......Page 168
Red Toners......Page 175
Toning Variations......Page 176
What Is a Camera?......Page 182
The Pinhole Camera......Page 184
Plastic Cameras......Page 188
Changing the Angle of View......Page 190
Panoramic Cameras......Page 193
Sequence Cameras......Page 195
Obsolete Special-use Cameras......Page 196
Stereoscopic Photography......Page 198
Stroboscopic Photography......Page 201
Underwater Equipment and Protection......Page 202
CHAPTER 10 Historic and Alternative Processes: Beauty, Imagination and Inventiveness......Page 204
Paper and the Image Viewing Experience......Page 206
Exposure......Page 208
Salt Prints......Page 209
Cyanotype Process......Page 214
Ambrotype Process: Wet-plate Collodion Positives on Glass......Page 219
Kallitype and Vandyke Brownprint Processes......Page 224
Chrysotype Process......Page 227
Platinum and Palladium Processes......Page 228
Gum Bichromate Process......Page 234
The Bromoil Process......Page 238
Gumoil......Page 239
Mordançage......Page 240
Lith Printing......Page 241
Electrostatic Processes: Copy Machines......Page 243
Hand-Altered Work......Page 248
Photograms......Page 249
Chemigram......Page 252
Cliché-Verre......Page 253
Extended Camera Exposures......Page 255
Postcamera Techniques: in Search if Time......Page 258
Multiple-Exposure Methods......Page 260
Fabrication: Happenings for the Camera......Page 265
Composite Variations......Page 268
Processing Manipulation: Reticulation......Page 272
Hand-Coloring......Page 273
Airbrushing......Page 276
Transfers and Stencils......Page 279
Pictures From a Screen......Page 288
B......Page 292
C......Page 293
E......Page 294
G......Page 295
K......Page 296
N......Page 297
P......Page 298
S......Page 299
T......Page 300
Z......Page 301
