A Non-Silver Manual

Cyanotype, Vandyke brown, Palladium & Gum Bichromate with instructions for making light-resists including pinhole photography

Sarah Van Keuren

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Read Light-resists without camera or computer an extract from the book.

Full of ideas for workshops!

• Third Edition, 2004.
• Softbound
• 120 pages

Book description

This manual is intended to reinforce and supplement classroom instruction but may also assist artists outside the classroom who are already committed to working in non-silver processes. It originates from a collection of handouts that were written for non-silver students at The University of the Arts (formerly the Philadelphia College of Art). The creation of this manual was supported by four Venture Fund grants from UArts. Explicit descriptions of processes are not put forth as the way but rather as a way that has worked for the author and her students. Some former students continued to work in non-silver and most generously contributed the fruits of their labors to this new revised, reformatted, greatly expanded 3rd edition of A Non-Silver Manual.

About the author

Sarah Van Keuren is an Adjunct Professor in the Fine Arts Department of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she has been teaching in Printmaking since 1980. She majored in art history at Swarthmore College in the 1960’s. In the l970’s she studied printmaking at the Philadelphia College of Art with an emphasis on lithography. During that time she also learned silver photography and a number of non-silver processes. In l988 she received an MFA in Photography from the University of Delaware. She has taught workshops in gum, cyanotype and pinhole in the U.S. and abroad. She is represented by John Stevenson Gallery in NYC. In 2002 Van Keuren was named Honored Educator by the Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Region. In 2003 she was given the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at The University of the Arts.

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