Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition 2
Alternative Photography, Art and Artists, Edition 1. The hardback version.
Christina Z. Anderson
The Sabattier Effect: Teaching the Origins of Solarization in the Darkroom
In the digital age, where “solarization” is just a Photoshop filter, revisiting its darkroom origins provides invaluable insight for photography students. In the darkroom class at Montana State University, Bozeman, USA, students explore the Sabattier effect – a process where light reverses tones mid-development, producing glowing highlights and surreal edges. Through hands-on experimentation, they not only learn chemistry and timing but also experience the creative unpredictability that shaped early photographic … Read more
It’s big… it’s huge… it’s The MASSIVE paper chart for alternative processes
Is “massive” as in a massive paper chart for alternative photographic processes an exaggeration? No, more of an understatement. Christina Z. Anderson has run countless tests on any paper she could lay her hands on and is generously sharing her findings in a free version. To recoup some of the thousands of dollars spent on testing – as well as getting all the details – you can get the full … Read more
Papers for chrysotype
Christina Z. Anderson gives us her best tips for chrysotype papers. If you want to learn more about Chrysotypes, there is plenty to know in Leanne MacPhee’s book, Chrysotype. Writer and photography / Christina Z. Anderson With the rising cost of palladium, Mike Ware’s chrysotype process is an intriguing noble metal process to add to your alternative process arsenal. Leanne McPhee’s Chrysotype: A Contemporary Guide to Photographic Printing in Gold … Read more
Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography – book series
Christina Z. Anderson is the editor of Routledge‘s book series Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography with so far no less than 9 titles (update: now 11) on alternative photographic processes, and more coming. Malin Fabbri interviews Christina Z. Anderson. Photography / Christina Z. Anderson, Kelly Gorham Between writing books, doing workshops, teaching and printing your own images, how do you find the time to edit 9 books? Christina Z. … Read more
The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials
Experimental Photography Workbook by Christina Z. Anderson, 6th edition.
Chrysotype
Christina Z. Anderson gives us all we need to get started with the chrysotype process as well as tips for experienced printers. Writer / Christina Z. Anderson Photography / Christina Z. Anderson, Pradip Malde, Mark Goddard, Kirk Cochran, Alyssa McKenna, Nick Sramek, Charlie Parrott, Joren Nelson, Max McDonough, Caden McCullough, Alex Glenn, Jake Culbertson, Thomas Callahan, Fran Browne. The chrysotype2 (from Greek chryso/gold and typos/strike or print) is a photograph … Read more
Platinotype by Pradip Malde and Mike Ware
Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process is the complete book on Platinotypes with the work of 40 artists using the platinotype. Read the interview with the authors Pradip Malde and Mike Ware. Photography / Pradip Malde, Mike Ware and Rachel Malde. This volume is the ninth in the Routledge Alternative Process series, edited by Christina Z. Anderson and published by Routledge. Pradip Malde interviewed … Read more
Christina Z. Anderson and Tricolor gum bichromates
Christina Z. Anderson features in the Members’ spotlight with the Tricolor gum bichromate process.
Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition I
Alternative Photography, Art and Artists, Edition 1. A softback book representing over 100 artists working in alternative photographic processes.
All That and a Bag of Doritos – Christina Z. Anderson and the Impact of Imperfect Paths
Megan Crawford’s portrait of Christina Z. Anderson. Writer / Megan Crawford Photography / Kelsey Merritt, Christina Z. Anderson, Kelly Gorham, Megan Crawford Wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi? Maybe she meant to say wasabi, but that doesn’t make sense. Nope, wabi-sabi: the Japanese view of beauty in imperfection— literally the art of imperfection. I first learned about wabi-sabi in a photography darkroom at Montana State University, standing by a tray of chemistry that wafted … Read more
Papers for traditional / classic cyanotype process
Christina Z. Anderson spends her hard earned money ($1613) on paper research for cyanotype papers and generously shares the results. Writer and photography / Christina Z. Anderson Over the last twenty years of practicing alternative processes, good papers for alt have come and gone on the market—Weston Diploma Parchment being one example. Worse, formerly excellent papers have gone the buffered route to increase their archival properties—not good for many of … Read more
Breast milk and the casein print
Writer and photography / Christina Z. Anderson Christina Z. Anderson – author of Gum printing and other amazing contact printing processes, amongst other books – experiments yet again and this time uses breast milk to make casein prints or cottage cheese. Over the last two decades I have concentrated my photographic practice and research in the area of 19th century photographic processes, most often gum and casein dichromate printing. Casein … Read more
Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists
Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists makes one of the oldest known photographic processes easy for the 21st century using simple digital negative methods. Christina Z. Anderson’s in-depth discussion begins with a history of salted paper printing, then covers the salted paper process from beginner to intermediate level, with step-by-step instructions and an illustrated troubleshooting guide. Including cameraless imagery, hand-coloring, salt in combination with gum, and printing … Read more
The chemigram
Christina Z. Anderson tells us how to make chemigrams and shows plenty of examples from her students innovative work.
Digital negatives
A three step method for making digital negatives by Ron Reeder and Christina Z. Anderson, an excerpt from Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes.
Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes
Now shipping the 2013 revision of Christina Z. Anderson’s book Alternative Processes Condensed with an extensive gum section.
The Experimental Photography Workbook – book review
Malin takes a look at Christina Z. Anderson’s latest edition of The Experimental Photography Workbook – and finds it gets better and better with each edition.
