The Handmade Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print: Creating Your Own Liquid Emulsions for Black & White Paper...

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Denise Ross

The Handmade Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print

Creating Your Own Liquid Emulsions for Black & White Paper

Denise Ross

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Routledge
10 December 2018

Photographic equipment & techniques

Series: Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography

The Handmade Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print is a cookbook of simple, basic recipes for making black and white printing paper and paper negatives, along with creative options for printing, toning, and coloring. Author Denise Ross draws from photographic literature from the last 135 years, adapting old recipes to fit modern tools, materials, and work spaces and modern twists have been applied to traditional techniques.

The book is divided into three sections: Section One lays the groundwork for this unique alternative process; Section Two provides the recipes; Section Three highlights contemporary silver gelatin artists.

The book features over 200 full-color images and covers key topics including:

Vocabulary: a list of terms used by traditional photographers and emulsion makers

Creating work spaces with the right tools and materials

Basic emulsion chemistry and paper coating techniques

Working with various negative options, analog and digital

Gaslight chloride contact printing paper

Kodabromide-type chlorobromide all-purpose paper

Bromide enlarging paper

Warm tone paper and developers

Making and toning your own printing-out paper (POP)

Matte surface and baryta coating surface paper

Paper negatives and making hand-drawn and digital masks

Toning handmade paper

Gum printing over handmade paper

Troubleshooting handmade paper

Artists working with handmade paper

The Handmade Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print is for photographers who love the look and creative potential of black and white traditional photography but who want more control over the process and the end product. It is written for the beginner to experienced photographer, with processes initially explained in such a way that anyone will feel comfortable getting started, as well as information in increasing levels of complexity so that experienced photographers who enjoy a challenge will also find one.

By: Denise Ross
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm,
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9780815349914
ISBN 10: 0815349912
Series: Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 10 December 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Table of Contents Acknowledgements SECTION I—The Important Stuff Before the Recipes Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Vocabulary Chapter 3. The Darkroom Chapter 4. Materials Chapter 5. The Basics Chapter 6. Coating Paper Chapter 7. Troubleshooting Coating Chapter 8. Printing Chapter 9. Processing Chapter 10. Toning and Other Ways to Add Color SECTION II—The Recipes Chapter 11. Developers Chapter 12. Baryta Coating Surface Baryta Paper Coating Chapter 13 . Potassium Chloride (KCl) ""Gaslight"" Contact Printing Paper Chapter 14. Three Salts Contact Printing Paper Chapter 15. Chlorobromide (Kodabromide-Type) All-Purpose Paper Chapter 16. Bromide Paper for Enlarging and Contact Printing Paper Chapter 17. Gelatin-Chloride Printing-Out Paper (POP) Chapter 18. Paper Negatives SECTION III—The Contributors Chapter 19. Ian Andvaag Chapter 20. Radoslaw Brzozowski Chapter 21. Didier Derien Chapter 22. Edward Durrill Chapter 23. Cate Sampson Chapter 24. George L Smyth Bibliography"

Denise Ross has been a photographer for over 30 years and has been at the forefront of the handmade silver gelatin renaissance. Combining her background in science, research, and love of traditional black and white photography, Ross has extensively researched and reverse-engineered historic emulsion formulas and techniques for contemporary use. Ross created The Light Farm in 2008, a teaching website devoted to handmade silver gelatin emulsions and published an accompanying book of the same name. Ross’s work has been exhibited nationally and has appeared in publications such as Photo Techniques, Large Format Photography, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, and Jill Enfields’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes. To see her work, visit www.thelightfarm.com

Reviews for The Handmade Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print: Creating Your Own Liquid Emulsions for Black & White Paper

An excellent introduction to the magical process of making your own silver gelatin emulsions and papers, full of practical advice and, most importantly it makes the process simple and understandable even to those with little or no darkroom experience. R. Brzozowski, head teacher of Tricity School of Photography and Alternative Photographic Supplies Training Centre