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Clear instructions and step-by-step photographs teach you how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive emulsions by hand, how to create imagery in and out of the darkroom, how to translocate Polaroid photos and magazine and newspaper pictures, and how to alter black-and-white photographs. A color portfolio highlights the work of internationally known artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Walker, and most recently Doug and Mike Starn, and an invaluable list of supply sources (including e-mail addresses) from throughout North America and Europe is included at the end of the book.
Setting aside old distinctions between photographer and nonphotographer, New Dimensions in Photo Processes invites artists in all media to discover nonsilver imaging techniques. Painters, printmakers, fiber artists, sculptors, illustrators and photographers alike will find this a valuable, practical text outlining creative processes that require little or no knowledge of photography and chemistry.
Cookbook format with step-by-step procedures
Explains digital methods of color separation and making negatives
New chapter on Bromoil & Chromoskedasic techniques
--This text refers to the
Plastic Comb
edition.
Synopsis
This work invites artists in all media to discover nonsilver imaging techniques. The text outlines the creative processes that require little or no knowledge of photography or chemistry. Instructions and photographs teach how to mix chemicals and apply light-senstive emulsions by hand, how to create imagery in and out of the darkroom, how to translocate Polaroid photographs and magazine and newspaper pictures, and how to alter black-and-white photographs. A colour portfolio highlights the work of artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Walker, Bea Nettles, and Robert W. Fichter. A list of supply sources from throughout North America and Europe is also included. The book should be suitable for painters, printmakers, fibre artists, sculptors, illustrators, and photographers alike.
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