For our 25th anniversary, we present this book! Step into a world where light, chemistry, and creativity collide. 137 artists push the boundaries of alternative photography, with processes like cyanotype, gum, and platinum printing to create unique, handcrafted images. They showcase their work, insights, and inspiration. Note: this is the 2025 edition. The 2006 Edition 1, can be found here.
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– Wendy Currie, artist
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– Laurina Bellew, Blue Lumiere Art
“I am amazed and excited to see the incredible, interesting, high standard of the work.”
– Dennis da Silva
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- Artists represented in the book: 137, see the full list below.
- 294 pages, full colour
- Publisher: AlternativePhotography.com (2025)
- Pressrelease
- ISBN on Amazon: Paperback: ASIN: B0DYK8R2NV
- ISBN on Amazon: Hardcover: ISBN: 9798312970609 / ASIN: B0DZCMP4DG
About Art and Artists, edition 2
This is our Anniversary Book published for our 25th birthday on in April 2025!
Artists fuelling the imagination with albumen, anthotype, bromoil, chemigram, chlorophyll, chrysotype, cyanotype, gum, transfer, kallitype, lumen, mordançage, phytogram, platinum/palladium, salt, vandyke, wet plate and other alternative processes.
Step into a world where light, chemistry, and creativity collide. 137 artists push the boundaries of alternative photography, with processes like cyanotype, gum, and platinum printing to create unique, handcrafted images. They showcase their work, insights, and inspiration.
Each artist presents a selection of their best work, accompanied by a bio and personal statement that offers insight into their process and inspiration. Whether you are an artist, collector, or simply curious, you’ll discover new perspectives, fresh inspiration, and a deeper appreciation for photography beyond the digital realm. Above all, you will find inspiration.
Brought to you by AlternativePhotography.com, the leading source for alternative process photography, this book is an essential guide for anyone passionate about photography as an expressive, hands-on craft.
Alternative photographic processes encompass a diverse array of techniques beyond the realms of traditional film and digital photography. Practitioners explore experimental approaches to image-making including practices such as anthotype, cyanotype, gum bichromate, platinum/palladium printing, and many others. What sets alternative processes apart is their emphasis on hands-on craftsmanship and the use of unconventional materials. These methods result in aesthetic qualities that evoke a mood that is hard to achieve through conventional means.
The artists are part of the community on AlternativePhotography.com – dedicated to historical photographic methods in use today. The organisation encourages photographers and artists to learn, get inspired and connect. Any profits from sales of this book contribute towards the running costs of this valuable resource.
“Happy to be part of Art and Artists, Volume 2. Filled with inspiring alternative process photography, it’s a must-have for artists and enthusiasts.
I love sharing with you and highly recommend it to experimental photography lovers.”
In the press
“This book is an essential guide for anyone passionate about photography as an expressive, hands-on craft.”
Alternative processes
The artists in the book showcase the following alternative photographic processes and techniques:
- Albumen prints
- Anthotypes
- Bromoils
- Chemigrams
- Chemilumens
- Chloro bromoide print
- Chlorophyll prints
- Chrysotypes
- Collages and Mixed Media
- Collotypes
- Cyanolumens
- Cyanotypes
- Dye transfers
- Ferric-lupin prints
- Ferric-wheat prints
- Gum bichromates
- Gumoils
- Image transfers
- Kallitypes
- Lumens
- Mordançages
- Natural pigment prints
- Palladiums
- Photopolymers
- Phytograms
- Platinotypes
- Platinum/palladiums
- Polaroid transfers
- Rawlins oil prints
- Salt prints
- Silver gelatins
- Solarplates
- Temeraprints
- Tintypes
- Toned and Handcoloured prints
- Vandyke browns
- Wet cyanotypes
- Wet plate collodions
- Ziatypes
Artists included in Art and Artists, edition 2
Artists represented in the book are Christine Acebo, David Aimone, Pernille Andersen, Christina Z. Anderson, Bonnie O. App, Bridget Arnold, Ilze Aviks, Jan Avonds, Carmen Ayala, Massimo Badolato, Laurinda Bellew, Mona Benediktsson, Paige Billin-Frye, Peter J. Blackburn, Diana H. Bloomfield, Jane Booth, Eva Botofte, Nancy Breslin, Petra-Puk Bresser, John Brewer, Patricia Bromberger, Chris Byrnes, Angela Chalmers, Sylvia Charbonnier, Alexander Chater, Rebecca Clark, Maureen Cogan, Oriana Confente, Bridget Conn, Ellen J. Craft, Wendy Currie, Dennis da Silva, Dan Dakotas, Sandra C. Davis, Adrienne Defendi, Hiske Dooper, Kate Durham, Brian K. Edwards, Crystal Edwards, Danielle Edwards, Jill Enfield, Jurgen Estanislao, Frani Evedon, Malin Fabbri, Adriana Ferreira, Renato Ferreira, Janet Fine, Peter Friedrichsen, Laura Gatto, Alan Glover,Annette Golaz, Sophie Gotti, Anne Guest, Carol Gula, Robert T. Gumpper, Teresa Guxens, Alexander Hamilton, Ray Harris, Carol Hayman, Amy Heller, MaryEllen Hendricks, Richard Hildred, Sharlene Holliday, Rosemary Horn, Dennis Humphrey, Bernd Hutschenreuther, Suzanne Izzo, Alessandro Jazeolla, David Jeffery, Margrieta A.P. Jeltema, Kate Jordahl, Christine Kashuba, Jude Kaye, Mary Kocol, Greta Koshenina, Magda Kuca, Hanne Lange Houlberg, Merete Lien, Paul Ligas, Palle Lindgaard-Jørgensen, Melody Locke, David Lowe, Marie Lund, Trevor Lund, Nuala Mahon, Karin Matter-Locher, Julie McMahon, Leanne McPhee, Pedro Mendes Leal, Karen Molloy, Rita Mungiardi, Yeliz Okay, Jacqui Penrose, Jen Perena, Ian Phillips-McLaren, Clive Pigott, Robert Poole, Tuula Pystynen, António Rebolo, Kathryn Reichert, Ralph Rinke, Caroline Roberts, Carla Rocha, Montserrat Rodríguez aka nyx10110, Denise W Ross, Deborah Ryan, Robert A. Schaefer, Jr., Christiane Schatz, Aindreas Scholz, Kevin Rose Schultz, Georg Sedlmeir, James Sedwick, Dennis Segers, Diana Shay-Diehl, Marion Sidebottom, Tom Sobota, Michael R. Stimola, Leona Strassberg Steiner, Julia Sumangil, David Symonds, Natalia Tcherniak, Tom Thompson, Paul Tipton, Maria Trunk, Spiffy Tumbleweed, Rhonda Lee Usipiuk, Linda J. VanArtsdalen, Kathy Vukasovich, Anna Walsh, Linda Warren, Marlene Weinstein, Günther Wilhelm, Wisteria, Nan Wollman, Veronica M Worrall, Cristina Zaletta and Nóra Fanni Zentay.
I love sharing with you and highly recommend it to experimental photography lovers.” -Teresa Guxens
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I received my copy of this wonderful inspiring book. Very happy with the quality and layout!
It’s an honour to be part of this edition and it’s fun to view all the other artists.
Alternative Photography is a wonderful platform and source for so many curious artists who are looking into different ways to express themselves. Thank you for sharing and for bundling these amazing works in the 2nd edition!
I received my copy of Art And Artists 2nd addition and can not tell you how pleased I am with the quality. It is a beautiful book and worth every penny! If you happen to be an artist working in any medium you will find plenty of inspiration between the pages not to mention a bit about each artist and what inspires them to create.