Christian Klant
Recommended reading - Books on Wet plate collodion and Ambrotypes
Chemical Pictures The Wet Plate Collodion Book: Making Ambrotypes, Tintypes & Alumitypes
Covers everything you need to know about wet-plate collodion photography.
Making the Sliding Box Camera: For Wet Plate Collodion or Daguerreotype Photography
Learn how to construct a camera in wood, dating back to the daguerreotype era.
Making the Traditional Wet Plate Camera: Suitable for Wet Plate Collodion, Dry Plate, or Daguerreotype Photography
From the basics to more advanced techniques on building a historically-correct bellows camera for plate photography.
The Ambrotype: A Practical Guide
Rated 8,0 – based on 6 votes
The Wet Collodion Plate: 16 Steps To Making The Plates
Rated 9,2 – based on 26 votes
- Will sadly passed away in April 2021 so this book is no longer for sale. His widow very kindly donated the book for everyone to read for free in his memory.
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85+ papers tested in the argyrotype, chrysotype, cyanotype, palladium, salted paper and vandyke brown process.Pure Inspiration = A cross between learning and inspiration
Pure Inspiration #2: COLOUR
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Pure Inspiration #1: COMPOSITES
A fusion of moments and visions from artists working in alternative photographic processes – featuring 90+ inspirational alternative photographic processes images. Highly creative!Our 25th anniversary book
Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition 2
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