Carbon print darkroom tray

Carbon printing – process overview

An excerpt from The Carbon Print explaining the basic steps to transform pigmented gelatin into a print in the Carbon print process. Writer and photography / Sandy King and John Lockhart Carbon transfer is a contact printing process that produces an image formed by a layer of hardened, pigmented gelatin on a surface which is usually paper. The surface on which the image is printed is generically referred to as … Read more

Print by Julia Margaret Cameron

A Brief History of Carbon Printing

An excerpt from The Carbon Print illustrating Ponton’s Discovery to the Alternative Process Revival. Writer / Sandy King and John Lockhart Photography / Alphonse-Louis Poitevin, Thomas Annan, Richard Miller, Julia Margaret Cameron, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Adolphe Braun The early interest in the carbon process grew out of the public concern with the major flaw of early salted paper prints – their tendency to fade. A. M. Marton’s 1905 manual A … Read more

Sandy King

Sandy King

Sandy King is known to many for his work in Carbon and carbo and as the author of the book The Carbon Print. From: Easley, South Carolina, USA. Shows: Carbon, Carbro, Platinum/palladium. Sandy King is a photo historian and landscape photographer, working primarily with large format and ultra large format cameras. He prints primarily with alternative processes, including carbon, kallitype and palladium, and is the author of The Carbon Print. … Read more

Arrangement of developing trays.

Carbon printing – getting started

Writer and photography / Sandy King and John Lockhart An excerpt from The Carbon Print explaining how to use the book, be safe, and avoid common pitfalls with the Carbon print process. If you are a veteran carbon printer, you should feel comfortable jumping around this book to topics of special interest. For new carbon printers, there is a path through the working procedures that will be the most helpful … Read more

Carbon transfer printing by Sandy King

Carbon Transfer Printing by Sandy King, Don Nelson, John Lockhart

Carbon Transfer Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual, Featuring Contemporary Carbon Printers and Their Creative Practice by Sandy King, Don Nelson and John Lockhart Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk Buy directly from Routledge publishers Reviews the extensive history of carbon transfer and related pigment processes.   The carbon print is a new version of the book “Carbon and carbro” that went out of print some time ago. Advice and tips for … Read more

Ruins at Montauck. 7×17 Gold toned Kallitype from a 7×17 in-camera negative. 2001. Montauck, New York.

The Kallitype Process

Kallitype process: A silver-iron method for making permanent prints in gold, palladium and platinum metals by Sandy King.