New Dimensions in Photo Processes, Fourth Edition: A Step by Step Manual for Alternative Techniques

Laura Blacklow

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A step by step manual and guide to non-silver imaging. This book has it all: historical information, health & safety tips and detailed descriptions of materials and methods needed to make Solvent transfers, Cyanotypes, Vandyke prints, Gum bichromates and Platinum and Palladium prints.

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, photocopies,magazine and newspaper pictures, and how to alter black-and-white and color photographs.

FULL COLOR throughout for the first time, this redesigned fourth edition of New Dimensions in Photo Processes beautifully highlights the work of internationally known artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Walker, Doug and Mike Starn, and John Wood. An invaluable list of supply sources (including e-mail addresses) from throughout North America and Europe is included at the end of the book. Landscape layout allows for easy readability in the studio!

*Now in FULL COLOR with lots of new, beautiful, and inspiring images throughout
*Now in a landscape format for easy use in the studio
*In a pleasing, easy-to-understand, step-by-step format with three new chapters and LOADs of new techniques including digital methods of color separation and making CONTACT negatives
*This book makes learning new processes easy!

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Focal Press; 4 edition (March 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 978-0240807898

About the Author

Laura Blacklow is on the faculty of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts She has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for works on paper, the St. Botolph Club's Morton C. Bradley Award in Color, Polaroid Corporation's Artist Support Program, and the Massachusetts Arists' Foundation Fellowship for her hand-colored, black-and-white photographs. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Photographic Resource Center and is an active participant in the arts community. Her manipulated photographic prints have been shown internationally, and reproductions of her work have appeared in numerous publications.