The Handmade Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print is a cookbook of simple, basic recipes for making black and white printing paper and paper negatives, along with creative options for printing, toning, and coloring. Author Denise Ross draws from photographic literature from the last 135 years, adapting old recipes to fit modern tools, materials, and work spaces and modern twists have been applied to traditional techniques.
The book is divided into three sections: Section One lays the groundwork for this unique alternative process; Section Two provides the recipes; Section Three highlights contemporary silver gelatin artists.
The book features over 200 full-color images and covers key topics including:
Vocabulary: a list of terms used by traditional photographers and emulsion makers
Creating work spaces with the right tools and materials
Basic emulsion chemistry and paper coating techniques
Working with various negative options, analog and digital
Gaslight chloride contact printing paper
Kodabromide-type chlorobromide all-purpose paper
Bromide enlarging paper
Warm tone paper and developers
Making and toning your own printing-out paper (POP)
Matte surface and baryta coating surface paper
Paper negatives and making hand-drawn and digital masks
Toning handmade paper
Gum printing over handmade paper
Troubleshooting handmade paper
Artists working with handmade paper
The Handmade Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print is for photographers who love the look and creative potential of black and white traditional photography but who want more control over the process and the end product. It is written for the beginner to experienced photographer, with processes initially explained in such a way that anyone will feel comfortable getting started, as well as information in increasing levels of complexity so that experienced photographers who enjoy a challenge will also find one.
Arvustused
An excellent introduction to the magical process of making your own silver gelatin emulsions and papers, full of practical advice and, most importantly it makes the process simple and understandable even to those with little or no darkroom experience.
R. Brzozowski, Head Tutor of Tricity School of Photography
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
SECTION IThe Important Stuff Before the Recipes
Chapter
1. Introduction
Chapter
2. Vocabulary
Chapter
3. The Darkroom
Chapter
4. Materials
Chapter
5. The Basics
Chapter
6. Coating Paper
Chapter
7. Troubleshooting Coating
Chapter
8. Printing
Chapter
9. Processing
Chapter
10. Toning and Other Ways to Add Color
SECTION IIThe Recipes
Chapter
11. Developers
Chapter
12. Baryta Coating Surface
Baryta Paper Coating
Chapter 13 . Potassium Chloride (KCl) "Gaslight" Contact Printing Paper
Chapter
14. Three Salts Contact Printing Paper
Chapter
15. Chlorobromide (Kodabromide-Type) All-Purpose Paper
Chapter
16. Bromide Paper for Enlarging and Contact Printing Paper
Chapter
17. Gelatin-Chloride Printing-Out Paper (POP)
Chapter
18. Paper Negatives
SECTION IIIThe Contributors
Chapter
19. Ian Andvaag
Chapter
20. Radoslaw Brzozowski
Chapter
21. Didier Derien
Chapter
22. Edward Durrill
Chapter
23. Cate Sampson
Chapter
24. George L Smyth
Bibliography
Denise Ross has been a photographer for over 30 years and has been at the forefront of the handmade silver gelatin renaissance. Combining her background in science, research, and love of traditional black and white photography, Ross has extensively researched and reverse-engineered historic emulsion formulas and techniques for contemporary use. Ross created The Light Farm in 2008, a teaching website devoted to handmade silver gelatin emulsions and published an accompanying book of the same name. Rosss work has been exhibited nationally and has appeared in publications such as Photo Techniques, Large Format Photography, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, and Jill Enfieldss Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes. To see her work, visit www.thelightfarm.com
