Photographic possibilities the expressive use of equipment, ideas, materials, and processes

The long-awaited new edition of this seminal text features clear, reliable, step-by-step instructions on innovative alternative and traditional photographic processes. Over and above a full update and revision of the technical data, there are new sections on digital negative making, electrophotograp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hirsch, Robert, 1949- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, [England] ; New York : Routledge 2018.
Edición:4th edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630657506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1 Essential Moments in Photographic Printmaking
  • The Language of Photography
  • Concepts and Technology Affecting Photographic Printmaking
  • Extending Photographic Boundaries
  • Electronic Imaging: New Ways of Seeing
  • Possessing a Sense of History
  • CHAPTER 2 Predarkroom Actions: Imaginative Thinking
  • Establishing a Personal Creation Process
  • Photographic Origins
  • Thinking within a System
  • Purposes of Photography
  • CHAPTER 3 Special Classic Cameras and Equipment
  • What is a Camera?
  • The Pinhole Camera
  • Handmade Cameras
  • Toy Plastic Cameras: Low-Fidelity Aesthetic
  • Disposable Cameras
  • Macro Lenses: Extreme Close-Ups
  • Lensbaby and Bokeh: Controlled Depth of Field
  • Telephoto Lens: Compressed Depth of Field
  • Wide-Angle Lenses: Expanding the View
  • Panoramic Cameras
  • Miscellaneous Special-Use Cameras
  • Stereoscopic Photography
  • Stroboscopic Photography
  • Underwater Equipment and Protection
  • CHAPTER 4 Image Capture: Special-Use Films, Processing, and Digital Negative Making
  • Film and the Photographer
  • General Film Processing Procedures
  • Infrared Black-and-White Film
  • Extended Red Sensitivity Film
  • High-Speed Black-and-White Film
  • Heightening Grain and Contrast
  • Ultra-Fine-Grain Black-and-White Film: Ilford Pan F Plus
  • High-Contrast Litho Films
  • Orthochromatic Film
  • Paper Negatives and Positives: Contemporary Calotypes
  • Reversing Black-and-White Film
  • The Impossible Project: Instant Positive Film
  • Processing Black-and-White Film for Permanence
  • Digital Negative Making: An Overview
  • Scanners
  • CHAPTER 5 Formulas of One's Own
  • Prepared Formulas or Mixing Your Own
  • Basic Equipment
  • Chemicals
  • Preparing Formulas
  • US Customary Weights and Metric Equivalents.
  • CHAPTER 6 Black-and-White Film Developers
  • What Happens to Silver-Based Films During Exposure and Processing?
  • Image Characteristics of Film
  • Components and Characteristics of Black-and-White Developers
  • Basic Developer Types
  • Postdevelopment Procedures
  • Film Developer Formulas and their Applications
  • Visual Test for Determining Processing Times and ISO
  • Is all this Necessary?
  • CHAPTER 7 Analog Fine Printmaking: Equipment, Materials, and Processes
  • The Analog Fine Printmaking Process
  • Printing Equipment
  • Standard Printing Materials
  • Print Finishing
  • Special Printing Materials
  • Processing Prints for Permanence
  • CHAPTER 8 Black-and-White Paper Developers
  • Paper Developer and Developing-Out Paper
  • Components of Black-and-White Silver Print Developers
  • Additional Processing Factors
  • Controlling Contrast During Development
  • Matching Developer and Paper
  • Developer Applications and Characteristics
  • Classic Paper Developer Formulas
  • CHAPTER 9 Toning for Visual Effects
  • Processing Controls
  • Basic Types of Toners
  • Processing Prints to be Toned
  • General Working Procedures for Toners
  • Brown Toners
  • Blue Toners
  • Red Toners
  • Green Toners
  • Toning Variations
  • CHAPTER 10 Classic Historic Processes
  • Salt Prints
  • Cyanotype Process
  • History of the Ambrotype and Tintype Processes
  • Kallitype and Vandyke Brownprint Processes
  • Chrysotype Process
  • Platinum and Palladium Processes
  • CHAPTER 11 Pigmented and Alternative Processes
  • Gum Bichromate Process
  • Tri-Color Gum Prints from Digital Negatives
  • The Bromoil Process
  • Gumoil
  • Mordançage
  • Lith Printing
  • Electrostatic Processes: Copy Machines
  • Electrophotography: The Xerox Flat Plate System
  • Toner Transfer Process
  • CHAPTER 12 Transforming Photographic Concepts: Expanding the Lexicon
  • Hand-Altered Work
  • Cameraless Images.
  • Chemigram
  • Cliché-Verre
  • Extended Camera Exposures
  • Postcamera Techniques in Search of Time
  • Multiple-Exposure Methods
  • Fabrication: Creations Made for the Camera
  • Composite Variations
  • Processing Manipulation: Reticulation
  • Hand-Coloring
  • Airbrushing
  • Transfers and Stencils
  • Going Against the Grain
  • Cross-Processing: Slides as Negatives and Negatives as Slides
  • Print-on-Demand: The Self-Published Handcrafted Photobook
  • Book Making Skill Sets
  • Photobook Making Process
  • Incorporating Handmade Elements
  • ADDENDUM 1 Safety Guidelines
  • Contact Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities, and Poison Control
  • Disposing of Chemistry
  • Darkroom Ventilation
  • Water for Photographic Processes
  • Index.