Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes
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Book Overview
Serious imagemakers have come to trust and depend on this resource of innovative, traditional, and alternative photographic processes to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness. This book offers new links between analog and digital photography by featuring clear, step-by-step instructions on topics ranging from making digital negatives, to using infrared film and toners, to alternative process techniques including salt prints, ambrotypes, kallitypes, Vandyke Brownprints, gumoil, gum bichromate, platinum and palladium processes, and more. This edition showcases the thought-provoking work of more than 140 international artists including Peter Beard, Dan Burkholder, Carl Chiarenza, Michael Kenna, Dinh Q. L , Joe Mills, Andrea Modica, Bea Nettles, France Scully and Mark Osterman, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Holly Roberts, Martha Rosler, Mike and Doug Starn, John Sexton, Brian Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, and Joel Peter Witkin as well as other major and emerging talents. Image captions explain how each artist technically realized their vision and concept.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0240810139
ISBN13:9780240810133
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:Focal Press
Length:284 Pages
Weight:2.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 8.3" x 10.9"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Torn...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Torn, as in whether to rate this book as a useful instructional guide, or boring casual reading. Torn, as in the author's feelings on whether to write about the sentiment and philosophy behind photography. Sections get weighed down by the author's need to discuss (in overly maudlin terms) the creative expression offered by photography. I would have preferred a book to be either wholly technical or entirely emotional (and clearly presented as such, so that I could avoid it). Torn, as in the pages falling from this poorly bound book. Several friends have informed me that their copies fell apart, too. All in all, I found the procedural information to be clear and concise, covering not just basics, but some more interesting darkroom techniques. It seemed that the rest was serving as filler; personally I would prefer more picture examples and less of the non-procedural text. However, this book is a good alternative to some of the better, but unfortunately out of print, darkroom guides.
Great! A must read for serious photographers.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This is a very good book that covers many of the less well known photographic processes and materials. It is well written and provides clear instructions about using the various processes.
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