This book guides readers through how to create prints using accessible and historic processes in the digital age, providing step-by-step detail on materials needed and troubleshooting. Part One is a how-to section to achieve successful prints. Part Two is devoted to over 20 contemporary artists, their prints and how they came to make them.
Focusing on three iron-silver processes—kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and argyrotype—this book will guide readers through how to create prints using these accessible and historic processes in the digital age.
Often termed the Brownprint processes, author Donald W. Nelson provides step-by-step detail on how to create prints using kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype methods, including information on the materials needed, troubleshooting issues, and examples from contemporary artists. The book consists of two parts. Part I is a step-by-step how-to section including all the information that a practitioner at any level needs to achieve successful kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype prints. Part II is devoted to contemporary artists who have integrated the process into their creative practice.
The book includes the following:
- A list of equipment and supplies needed
- Concise step-by-step instructions for creating kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype prints successfully
- Troubleshooting common issues
- A range of creative ideas on how to use the processes in the classroom
- Examples from over 20 contemporary artists, including their prints and how they came to make them
Ideal for students and professionals alike, this book is an accessible introduction to alternative process photography.
Preface
Chapter
1. Introduction to Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and
Argyrotype
Chapter
2. Chemistry Supplies
Chapter
3. Setting up the
Brownprint Dimroom
Chapter
4. Creating the Digital Negative
Chapter
5.
Paper selection
Chapter
6. Mixing Chemistry for the Processes - Sensitiers,
Developers and Toners
Chapter
7. Making the Kallitype Print
Chapter
8.
Making the Vandyke Brown Print Chapter
9. Making the Argyrotype Print
Chapter
10. Troubleshooting
Chapter
11. Making the Toned Print
Chapter
12.
Finishing Prints
Chapter
13. Contemporary Artists Appendix A - Kallitype
Developer Quadtonerip Ink Definiton Files Appendix B - Gold Toner
Quadtonerip Ink Definition Files Appendix C - Prehumidified Argyrotype
Quadtonerip Ink Definition File Bibliography
Don Nelsons work focuses on the historic landscape in contemporary times, most often buildings disused or repurposed. Nelson has been a practitioner of alternative processes since 1983 using carbon transfer, platinum/palladium, kallitype, Vandyke brown, argyrotype, salt, and the now discontinued printing-out paper. Nelson began with large format cameras (12 x 20 and 7 x 17) but added digital negatives after a Dick Arentz/Mark Nelson Formulary workshop in the 1990s. Nelson continues to use both in-camera and digitally captured images in his work. He has shown work regionally. He is a co-author of Carbon Transfer Printing (Routledge, 2019) and authored a chapter on kallitype in Digital Negatives with QuadtoneRIP (Routledge, 2021). Nelson teaches carbon transfer classes at the Formulary/Workshops in Montana.
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