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Spirits of Salts: Working Guide to Old Photographic Processes (Paperback)

by Randall Webb (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Argentum (20 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902538056
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902538051
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 21.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Traditional processes offer the fine-art image-maker an abundance of options with which to create antique works of art. This book offers a practical, darkroom-based manual of such processes.
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2.0 out of 5 stars a working guide?, 19 May 2005
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This book gives a valuable overview about the different ways a photographic image can be created. Some - though by no means all - pictures are insiring, and point to the distinct possiblities of old processes: for they offer a wide range of very personal interpretations, of creating images with a distinct quality and characteristics not achievable in other ways. (I find quite a number of pictures trivial or misleading in the quality they demonstrate, but this is to some extent a matter of personal taste.)
But do not expect that you can learn any of these processes to some practical extent from the instructions in this book. The book contains, apart from a description of general equipment and technigues (like how to coat a paper), introductions into, among others, salt prints, cyanotypes, Van Dyke and Kallitypes, Platinum, Bromoil, Oil, Carbon transfer, gum and casein printing. But none of these introductions is detailed enough, or covers the parameters necessary to get any control over a process. One example: it is widely known that relative humidity of the printing environment and the paper is an absolutely critical parameter in platinum/palladium printing. But no hint about this is given in the book. As for gum prints: you will not succeed properly covering a paper with the emulsion of gum arabic, dichromate, and colour pigment with the method described. And, though the possibility is just mentioned, no method of multiple registering of the negative is given, nor are the problems connected with this described.
All in all, I might recommend, with some reservatios, buying this book only as a first introduction into an unknown field.
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5.0 out of 5 stars sprit of salts, 23 Nov 2002
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written with a great knowledge and understanding of the different and sometime complex old photographic processes.the reader is given a history of the processes in a very clear and comprehensive way with realistic aims and objectives.a must for anyone interested in the orgins of photographic magic
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical & knowledgeable summary of historical photographic, 2 Nov 2000
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There are many methods of achieving the photograph other than a basic b/w or color print. This book, w/concise instructions, problem solving and good reproductions of results is a superb guidebook by people who know how to achieve results.
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