Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment Ideas Materials and Processes

About this book

Serious imagemakers have come to trust and depend on this resource of innovative traditional and alternative photographic processes to enhance their technical knowledge create astonishing pictures and raise their visual consciousness. This book offers new links between analog and digital photography by featuring clear step-by-step instructions on topics ranging from making digital negatives to using infrared film and toners to alternative process techniques including salt prints ambrotypes kallitypes Vandyke Brownprints gumoil gum bichromate platinum and palladium processes and more. This edition showcases the thought-provoking work of more than 140 international artists including Peter Beard Dan Burkholder Carl Chiarenza Michael Kenna Dinh Q. L Joe Mills Andrea Modica Bea Nettles France Scully and Mark Osterman Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison Holly Roberts Martha Rosler Mike and Doug Starn John Sexton Brian Taylor Jerry Uelsmann and Joel Peter Witkin as well as other major and emerging talents. Image captions explain how each artist technically realized their vision and concept.