1st Edition

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

By Denise Ross Copyright 2019
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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

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 Tutor of Tricity School of Photography