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THE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES
Christopher James Christopher James is Chair of the Photography Department at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. James is an internationally recognized artist whose photographs and paintings have been published and exhibited extensively, including shows at The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and George Eastman House. James was a Professor at Harvard University from 1978 to 1991 and has lectured and given alternative process workshops throughout the world.
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"The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes" is both landmark and guide. It's where we've been, where we are now, and where we're going. Photography's classic methods and materials are explained, explored, extended, and reinvented, while marching well into the age of inkjet and digital. Judy Seigel, Founder and Editor of The World Journal of Post Factory Photography
For more than 25 years, Christopher James has been on a mission to open photography's eyes to the riches of its own possibilities. This is a book to take into the darkroom -- and to enjoy in the daylight. Lyle Rexer, author of Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Process Photography, Harry N. Abrams (2002), columnist on art and photography for The New York Times
Photographic artists and students will welcome this full-color, comprehensive technical resource that explores every aspect of alternative photography. Written in a highly accessible style, each of the book's chapters introduces the history of a technique, presents an overview of the relevant alternative or non-silver photographic process, reviews its chemistry, and provides practical guidance in how to make it work. Traditional and digital contact negative production are featured—plus an array of processes including cyanotype, Van Dyke, Kallitype, gum bichromate, platinum/palladium, Ziatype, Ambrotype, and hand-applied emulsions.
Features: Fully explains processes
used by historical and modern photographic artists—most of which do not
require a darkroom—offering exciting alternatives to traditional methods
and opening new doors to creative expression.
| Covers historical, procedural, and interdisciplinary connections from generating hand-made camera negatives to the logical evolution of techniques from the beginning of the photographic arts to digital imaging. | |
| Emphasis on the image-making process guides the reader to repeatable successes by exposing them to the idiosyncrasies of a wide variety of alternative and interdisciplinary process options. | |
| Showcases historical archetypes and "sets the bar" with contemporary images by students and top professionals, including Sally Mann, George Tice, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Olivia Parker, Dan Estabrook, Bea Nettles, and the author. | |
| Features an extensive section on chemical descriptions and safety considerations, making this book accessible and safe for use by the novice and experienced image-maker alike. |
Link to Christopher James'
Website: christopherjames-studio.com
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Winner of 2002 Golden Light Book Awards Best Technical
Book
Photo-Imaging, A Complete Guide to Alternative Processes, by Jill Enfield Her book has received the 2002 Golden Light Book
A panel of distinguished jurors reviews books and selects those that make a significant contribution to the art and literature of the medium. Submissions are judged on qualities such as writing, editing, photo reproduction, design and printing, and the contents' overall importance to their perspective mediums. The Jury, which reviews all entries, is comprised of several renowned photographers, film makers, publishers, writers and editors. |
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"Dan Burkholder has achieved a wonderful synergy in Making Digital Negative for Contact Print. Drawing upon his years of work in traditional photography, he presents a most valuable resource for those desiring to expand their work in the digital imaging arena" Link to Dan's Book |
The New Platinum Print, Chemical and procedural controls of color and
for expressive
photographic printing in platinum, palladium, and gold, by Richard
Sullivan and Carl Weese.
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A NON-SILVER MANUAL
Cyanotype, Brownprint, Palladium & Gum Bichromate with instructions
for making light-resists including pinhole photography by Sarah Van Keuren,
Second Edition, Seventh Revision. Printed on 8-1/2 by 11 inch
Cougar Opaque Vellum Finish 28/70 lb. paper with blank opposing pages for
notes; spiral bound, 46 pages.
Based on 19 years of teaching non-silver printmaking processes, (uarts.edu) this manual stresses underlying principles and gives detailed instructions. The book is not intended to convert the uninitiated to working in these rather hazardous processes. It is meant to supplement classroom instruction by teachers experienced in the processes and to help those already committed to printing in non-silver. The second edition is revised and expanded, especially in the gum bichromate chapter. This seventh revision contains updated resource information and a revised page listing watercolors used for gum bichromate.
Price: $15.00 + $3.00 shipping and handling within U.S; $6.00 for elsewhere
in world.
Please send check or money order to:
Sarah Van Keuren
6 Herford Place
Lansdowne, PA 19050-2408
Whispered Prayers; Portraits and Prose of Tibetans
in Exile,
by Stephen Harrison
"This book by Stephen Harrison has given individual Tibetans of varying
ages the
opportunity to share with a wider audience their
personal sad experiences and
their responses to them. . . . I am deeply moved
by both the words and images
encapsulated in this book. Focusing on the lives
of Tibetans who have undergone
tremendous suffering, the book succeeds in portraying
the courage and dignity of
the people of Tibet." -- His Holiness the Fourteenth
Dalai Lama
"Dr. Harris's photographs of, and interviews with,
some of those Tibetans who
managed to escape to India constitute a poignant
collection of personal records
which illustrate these terrible events in a vivid
way which no scholarly history can
match. . . . This wonderful tribute to human generosity
and resilience will make
many of those who read it wish that they could share
the faith of these Tibetan
Buddhists. Those who cannot do so will reflect that
human beings are only
capable of true nobility when they are dedicated
to something greater than
themselves." -- Dr. Anthony Storr, Psychiatrist
"The portraits here are direct images of willing
subjects, made with sympathy and
without artifice; in light of what we know, they
become rather touching. . . .
Stephen Harrison performs a real service in giving
these people their voices, as
they speak their own stories and tell their own
lives." -- Vicki Goldberg,
Photography critic, The New York Times
"Photography can be an art that is, in a number of
ways, especially compatible
with Buddhism. Certainly as practiced by Stephen
Harrison it leads us to
compassion. This is a book that doesn't stray."
-- Robert Adams, Photographer
and Essayist
Link
to Whispered Prayers; Portraits and Prose of Tibetans in Exile
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