The Darkroom Cookbook

5. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-40486-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 518 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

The fifth edition of this comprehensive guide to darkroom photography is fully revised and updated, placing analog and traditional methods into the context of a digital world and contemporary workflows.

Including invaluable analog photography techniques, chemicals, and equipment, supported by visual examples. The DCB5 has 180 updated recipes for darkroom experiments, and tips for mastering the darkroom. It includes the chemicals used to develop, stop, fix, tone, and archivally process films and prints. DCB5 contains invaluable information on making enlarged digital negatives, planning a darkroom, and safely handling photographic chemicals. It features new sections on split-printing, solarization, and making your own gelatin emulsion. The fifth edition includes contributions and stunning black-and-white imagery by established artists such as Bruce Barnbaum, Tim Rudman, Christina Z. Anderson, John Sexton, and more.

This is the essential guide for any practitioner who wants to take the next step to develop a thorough understanding of film and darkroom processes, techniques, and working methodologies, as well as graduate and advanced photography students with an interest in analog and darkroom processes.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anchell, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Ausrüstung & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Planning a Darkroom; Chapter 2: Equipment; Chapter 3: Film; Chapter 4: Film Developers; Chapter 5: Types of Film Developers; Chapter 6: Film Development; Chapter 7: Pyrogallol and Pyrocatechin; Chapter 8: Print Developers; Chapter 9: Paper; Chapter 10: Printing Methods and Techniques; Chapter 11: Printing Techniques of Master Printers; Chapter 12: Stop Baths and Fixers; Chapter 13: Toning Prints; Chapter 14: Reduction and Intensification; Chapter 15: Enlarged Digital Negatives; Chapter 16: Printing Out Processes; Chapter 17: Print Solarization; Chapter 18: Making a Simple Silver Bromide Gelatin Emulsion

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Anchell is an internationally published writer, photographer, and teacher with his work featured in more than 61 exhibits. Since 1979, he has taught photography workshops since 1979 and classes for Oregon State University, Santa Fe Workshops, the International Center of Photography in NYC, Tuscano Photo Workshops, and many others. He is a member of the Freestyle Photographic Board of Advisors.

Steve has five books on photography published by Focal Press: The Darkroom Cookbook, The Film Developing Cookbook, Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera, The Variable Contrast Printing Manual, and Digital Photo Assignments. He is the former editor of Photovision: Art and Technique and Focus Fine Art Photography magazines and has written for and worked as a contributing editor for numerous photography magazines.