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Presents photo imaging techniques through nonsilver photography, shows how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive emulsions by hand, create imagery, translocate magazine and newspaper pictures, and alter b&w photos. Spiral bound. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


Review
"This step-by-step primer...can help any artist enter new worlds of photographic art". - Popular Photography

".. an ideal book for someone keen to experiment with old techniques." - Professional Photographer

"...all the old methods are described here. This is an excellent US book.." - Amateur Photographer

"The book is full of good stuff; it offers clear guidance, with photographs, on how to mix chemistry and aplly lightsensitive emulsions by hand; how to create images both in and out of the darkroom; how to translocate Polaroid photographs; how to alter black and white photographs and how to set up a studio and darkroom." - Ilford Vision


Review
"This step-by-step primer...can help any artist enter new worlds of photographic art". - Popular Photography

".. an ideal book for someone keen to experiment with old techniques." - Professional Photographer

"...all the old methods are described here. This is an excellent US book.." - Amateur Photographer

"The book is full of good stuff; it offers clear guidance, with photographs, on how to mix chemistry and aplly lightsensitive emulsions by hand; how to create images both in and out of the darkroom; how to translocate Polaroid photographs; how to alter black and white photographs and how to set up a studio and darkroom." - Ilford Vision


Book Description
Clear instructions and step-by-step photographs teach you how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive emulsions by hand, how to create imagery in and out of the darkroom, how to translocate Polaroid photos and magazine and newspaper pictures, and how to alter black-and-white photographs. A color portfolio highlights the work of internationally known artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Walker, and most recently Doug and Mike Starn, and an invaluable list of supply sources (including e-mail addresses) from throughout North America and Europe is included at the end of the book.

Setting aside old distinctions between photographer and nonphotographer, New Dimensions in Photo Processes invites artists in all media to discover nonsilver imaging techniques. Painters, printmakers, fiber artists, sculptors, illustrators and photographers alike will find this a valuable, practical text outlining creative processes that require little or no knowledge of photography and chemistry.

Cookbook format with step-by-step procedures
Explains digital methods of color separation and making negatives
New chapter on Bromoil & Chromoskedasic techniques


From the Publisher
Clear instructions and step-by-step photographs teach you how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive mulsions by hand, how to create imagery in and out of the darkroom, how to translocate Polaroid photos and magazine and newspaper pictures, and how to alter black-and-white photographs. A color portfolio highlights the work of internationally known artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Walker, Bea Nettles and Robert W Fichter, and an invaluable list of supply sources from throughout North America and Europe is included at the end of the book.

ANNOTATION

Audience: Advanced amateurs, students and professionals.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Clear instructions and step-by-step photographs teach you how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive emulsions by hand, how to create imagery in and out of the darkroom, how to translocate Polaroid photos and magazine and newspaper pictures, and how to alter black-and-white photographs. A color portfolio highlights the work of internationally known artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Walker, and most recently Doug and Mike Starn, and an invaluable list of supply sources (including e-mail addresses) from throughout North America and Europe is included at the end of the book.

Setting aside old distinctions between photographer and nonphotographer, New Dimensions in Photo Processes invites artists in all media to discover nonsilver imaging techniques. Painters, printmakers, fiber artists, sculptors, illustrators and photographers alike will find this a valuable, practical text outlining creative processes that require little or no knowledge of photography and chemistry.

Cookbook format with step-by-step procedures
Explains digital methods of color separation and making negatives
New chapter on Bromoil & Chromoskedasic techniques

SYNOPSIS

Cookbook format with step-by-step procedures Explains digital methods of color separation and making negatives New chapter on Bromoil & Chromoskedasic techniques Setting aside old distinctions between photographer and nonphotographer, New Dimensions in Photo Processes invites artists in all media to discover nonsilver imaging techniques. Painters, printmakers, fiber artists, sculptors, illustrators and photographers alike will find this a valuable, practical text outlining creative processes that require little or no knowledge of photography and chemistry.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Laura Blacklow is on the faculty of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University's Visual and Environmental Studies Department. She has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for works on paper.

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