Carbon transfer printing a step-by-step manual, featuring contemporary carbon printers and their creative practice
Carbon Transfer Printing is a book about one of the earliest photographic processes that provided the first permanent printing methods, available in one form or another for over 150 years. This book reviews the extensive history of carbon transfer and related pigment processes in both monochrome and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York ; London :
Routledge
[2020]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Contemporary practices in alternative process photography series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009631034706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- PART ONE History of the Carbon Process and Carbon Transfer Printing Step-by-Step
- Chapter 1 History of the Carbon Transfer Process
- Monochrome Carbon Transfer
- Three-color Carbon
- Timeline of the History of Carbon Printing
- Chapter 2 Overview, and Making your First Carbon Transfer Print
- Step 1-Make the Carbon Tissue
- Step 2-Sensitize and Dry the Carbon Tissue
- Step 3-Expose the Tissue to a Negative with Ultraviolet Light
- Step 4-Mate the Tissue with a Temporary or Final Substrate
- Step 5-Develop the Print
- Step 6-Clear and Finish the Print
- Chapter 3 Supplies and Materials
- Introduction
- Negative Preparation
- Carbon Tissue Preparation
- Final Supports for the Print
- Sensitizing the Tissue
- Exposing the Tissue
- Mating the Tissue to Substrate
- Development
- Print Finishing
- Chapter 4 The Working Environment
- Lighting
- Humidity and Temperature
- The Wet Area
- The Drying Area
- Drying Unsensitized Printing Materials
- Drying Sensitized Tissue
- The Printing Area
- Chapter 5 Negatives for Carbon Printing
- Introduction
- Section One-Notes on Basic Densitometry
- The Characteristic Curve
- Using Transmission Step Scales
- Procedures for Testing with a Step Wedge
- Determine Base Minimum Printing Time with a Step Wedge
- Calculating Exposure Scale (ES)
- Section Two-Crafting the Analog Film Negative for Carbon Printing
- In-camera Film Negatives
- Section Three-Digital Negatives
- Getting Started with QTR
- Printing with QTR Profiles
- Install QTR
- Install your Printer
- Create a Custom QuadTone RIP Profile for Carbon Printing
- Step 1-Determine a Standard Print Time
- Step 2-Print an Ink Separation Image to Determine Inks and Proportions
- Step 3-Create a Custom QTR Profile.
- Step 4-Install the Profile and Print the 21-step Digital Negative
- Step 5-Adjust Ink Density to Get Dmax and Paper White
- Step 6-Linearize the Profile
- Linearizing with the CURVE_K
- Linearizing with the LINEARIZE=
- Chapter 6 Making Supports for Single and Double Transfer Carbon Printing
- Introduction
- Preparing Fixed-out Photographic Paper
- Sizing Watercolor Paper
- Sizing Watercolor Paper with Polyvinyl Acetate or Acrylic Medium
- Sizing Watercolor Paper with Hardened Gelatin
- Sizing the Paper
- Light Hardening of Watercolor Papers Sized with Gelatin or Albumen Plus Hardener
- The Albumen Solution
- Prepare the Gelatin Sizing Mixture and Coat the Paper
- Surface Prepping of Temporary Plastic Supports for Double Transfer
- Sizing Temporary Plastic Supports for Double Transfer
- Preparation of Final Paper Supports for Double Transfer
- Steps
- Sizing for Glass as a Carbon Transfer Support
- Classic Glass Sizing
- Modern Adhesion Promoter as a Sizing Agent
- Other Methods
- Chapter 7 Making Carbon Tissue
- Introduction
- How to Make Carbon Tissue
- Making Pigmented Gelatin
- Selecting a Gelatin
- Preparing the Pigmented Gelatin
- Coating Tissue
- Tip: Annotate the Back of Your Tissues
- The Laydown Method for Coating
- Preparation for Coating
- Basic Hand Coating
- Hand Coating the Tissue
- Tip: Calculating Volumes for Coating Height
- Using a Magnetic Frame and Rod
- Coating the Tissue with a Rod
- Using a Mayer Rod
- Coating with a Mayer Rod
- Selecting and Using Pigments
- Inks
- Watercolor Pigments
- Pigment Dispersions
- Dry Pigments
- Using an Improvised Ball Mill Storing Tissue
- Chapter 8 Basic Working Procedures for Single Carbon
- Overview
- Preparing a Printing Session
- Sensitizing the Tissue
- Mixing the Sensitizer with a Spirit
- Details of the Procedures.
- Applying the Sensitizer
- Hybrid Dab-brush Sensitizing
- Dry the Sensitized Tissue
- Expose the Sensitized Tissue
- Mate the Exposed Tissue to the Final Support
- Mating the Tissue and Support
- Development
- Saving a Print with a Frilled Edge
- Chapter 9 Multilayer Transfer Carbon
- Introduction
- Correct Orientation
- Aesthetic Qualities
- Duotones and Full Color CMY and CMYK
- The Temporary Support
- Performing the First Transfer and Development
- Transfer to Soluble Support Paper
- Triple Transfer
- Pin Registration
- Chapter 10 Color Carbon
- Contemporary Color Carbon Printing
- Making a Color Carbon Print: Overview of Contemporary Practice
- Basic CMY Color Calibration Methodology
- Identify Suitable Pigments
- Design the Pigment Tissues
- Linearize the CMY Layers
- Adjust the CMY Layers for Gray Balance
- Make a Carbon Print
- Create an .icc Profile for More Accurate Color Reproduction
- Hybrid Color: Combining Color Capture on Film with Digital Methodology
- Chapter 11 Alternative Materials and Working Methods with the Carbon Process
- Introduction
- Section One-Historical Review
- Pigment Prints with Direct Carbon Processes
- Pigment Prints with the Carbro Process
- Pigment Prints by Exposure through Substrate
- Section Two-Alternative Light Sensitive Agents with Carbon Printing, with some Practical Workflow Procedures
- Silver Bromide
- Diazonium Compounds
- Practical Use of Diazonium Compounds in Carbon Printing
- Making the Diazonium Pre-sensitized Tissue
- Diazonium Pre-sensitized Tissue #1-Diazon 22lz
- Diazonium Pre-sensitized Tissue #2-DAS
- UltraStable Color Clearing Bath
- Ferric Salts
- Ferric Carbon with Exposure through the Substrate on a Permanent Base
- Exposure
- Development
- Wash off Development
- Clearing
- Double Transfer Ferric Carbon.
- Steps in Making a Double Transfer Ferric Carbon Print
- Chapter 12 Finishing the Print
- Clearing
- Drying and Flattening
- Spotting
- Applying Finishes to Prints
- Applying Picture Varnish
- Overcoating with Gelatin
- PART TWO Contemporary Carbon Transfer Artists
- Chapter 13 Artists and Their Creative Practice
- Introduction
- Tod Gangler
- Sam Wang
- Michal Macků
- Javier De Reparaz
- Vaughn Hutchins
- Fred Dusel
- Erin Kice
- Cheng Hua
- Zhong Jianming
- Philip Schwartz
- Kane Stewart
- Bruce Campbell
- Jim Fitzgerald
- Andrew Musil
- Marek Matusz
- Sidney Kapuskar
- David Christensen
- Majo Guerrero Fonseca
- Andrew O'Neill
- Gary Baker
- Dave Hatton
- Cathy Cakebread
- Mark L. Freedman
- Jonathan Taala
- Ellie Young
- Appendix A Suppliers and Resources
- Appendix B Safe Practice
- Appendix C Sites with Significant Collections of Vintage Carbon Prints
- Bibliography
- Index.
