ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES
A basic bibliography
John Barnier (ed), Coming into Focus: A Step-by-StepGuide to
Alternative Photographic Printing Processes, SanFrancisco:
Chronicle Books, 2000
M Susan Barger and William White, The
Daguerreotype:Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern
Science,Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2000
William Crawford, The Keepers of Light: A History &Working
Guide to Early Photographic Processes, New York:Morgan &
Morgan, 1979
Jill Enfield, Photo-Imaging: A Complete Guide toAlternative
Processes, New York: Amphoto Books, 2002
Martin Reed & Sarah Jones, Silver Gelatin: A User's Guideto
Liquid Photographic Emulsions, London: Argentum,2001
Lyle Rexer, Photographys Antiquarian Avant-garde: theNew Wave in
Old Processes, New York: Harry N AbramsInc., 2002
David Scopick, The Gum Bichromate Book: Non-SilverMethods for
Photographic Printmaking, Boston andLondon: Focal Press, 1991
Mike Ware, Cyanotype: the History, Science & Art
ofPhotographic Printing in Prussian Blue, London &Bradford:
Published by the Science Museum for theNational Museum of
Photography, Film & Television, 1999
Mike Ware, The Chrysotype Manual: the Science andPractice of
Photographic Printing in Gold, Brighton: ffotof-film publishing,
2006
Mike Ware, Gold in Photography: the History and Art
ofChrysotype, Brighton: ffotoffilm publishing, 2006
Randall Webb & Martin Reed, Spirits of Salts: a workingguide
to old photographic processes, London: Argentum,1999
Suppliers of chemicals, papers and othermaterials
Atlantis Art Materials146 Brick LaneLondon E1 6RUTel: 020 - 7377
8855(Specialist papers)
L. Cornelissen & Son105 Great Russell StreetLondon WC1B
3RYTel: 020 7636 1045Email: [email protected]:
www.cornelissen.com (Artists suppliers - pigments, paint, papers,
brushes andgum)
Silverprint12 Valentine PlaceLondon SE1 8QHTel: 020 7620
0844Email: [email protected]: www.silverprint.co.uk
(Stock cyanotype and other chemicals and ready made kitsfor
conventional as well as historical processes. Also spe-ciality
paper)
Retro Photographic LtdWanstead Alchester RoadChestertonOxon OX26
1UNTel: 01869 240345Email: [email protected]:
www.retrophotographic.com (Chemicals for cyanotype, salt, albumen
and otherprocesses, plus film and paper)
Process Supplies (London) Ltd13-25 Mount PleasantLondon WC1X
0ARTel: 020 7838 2179Web: www.process-supplies.co.uk
Firstcall Photographic LimitedCherry Grove RiseWest
MonktonTauntonSomerset TA2 8LWTel: 01823 41 3007Web:
www.firstcall-photographic.co.ukEmail:
[email protected] (Fotospeed cyanoype, gum,
bromoil and argyrotype kits.Rockland blueprint kits)
Rockland ColloidPO Box 376, Piermont, NY 10968Tel: +1 845
359-5559Fax: +1 845 365-6663Email: [email protected]:
www.rockaloid.com(Liquid light emulsion. Tintype and cyanotype
kits)
Details of other suppliers can be found on the
websitesbelow.
Useful websites
Hands-On Pictures: www.hands-on-pictures.com/html/home.html
Details of workshops and events, working guides to gumprinting,
Bromoil and oil printing and cyanotypes. Basedin the UK:
Alternative Photography the art, process and tech-niques of
alternative photographic processes:
www.alter-nativephotography.com/ Includes articles, working guides,
books, shops and suppli-ers, discussion forums, galleries etc. An
international site,very wide-ranging and informative.
Mike Ware's Alternative Photography site:
www.mike-ware.demon.co.uk/ Mike Ware is a photographic processes
historian andchemist. The site includes working guides to the
argy-rotype, cyanotype, chrysotype and
platino-palladiotypeprocesses, as well as essays on historical and
conservationissues. Many useful resources, including
bibliographies,lists of suppliers and websites.
Mark and France Scully Osterman: www.collodion.org Leading
authorities and teachers in the wet-collodion andother historic
process, and guest scholars at GeorgeEastman House in New York.
Albumen Photographs: History, Science and
Preservationhttp://albumen.stanford.edu/index.shtml Images and
information about the albumen process,including an online guide to
creating your own albumenprints.
The Daguerriean Society (based in the USA):www.daguerre.org The
Society has created a website for and about peoplemaking
contemporary daguerreotypes:www.newdags.com/
Unblinking Eye: http://unblinkingeye.com/ Technical articles on
darkroom techniques, historical andalternative processes and print
finishing. '
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