4th Edition

Photographic Possibilities The Expressive Use of Concepts, Ideas, Materials, and Processes

By Robert Hirsch Copyright 2018
294 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

The long-awaited new edition of this seminal text features clear, reliable, step-by-step instructions on innovative alternative and traditional photographic processes. Over and above a full update and revision of the technical data, there are new sections on digital negative making, electrophotography, and self-publishing. Foremost practioners, including Edward Bateman, Dan Burkholder, Tom... Read more

Chapter 1

Essential Moments in Photographic Printmaking

Chapter 2

Predarkroom Actions: Imaginative Thinking

Chapter 3

Special Classic Cameras and Equipment

Chapter 4

Image Capture: Special-Use Films, Processing, and Digital Negative Making

Chapter 5

Formulas of One’s Own

Chapter 6

Black-and-White Film Developers

Chapter 7

Analog Fine Printmaking: Equipment, Materials, and Processes

Chapter 8

Black-and-White Paper Developers

Chapter 9

Toning for Visual Effects

Chapter 10

Classic Historic Processes

Chapter 11

Pigmented and Alternative Processes

Chapter 12

Transforming Photographic Concepts: Expanding the Lexicon

Addendum 1

Safety Guidelines

Biography

Robert Hirsch is an artist, writer, and the director of Light Research (www.lightresearch.net). His books include Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography, Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Concepts, Equipment, Materials, and Processes, Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, and Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography from 1960 to Now. Hirsch is a former Associate Editor for Digital Camera and Photovision magazines, and a contributor to Afterimage, Exposure, History of Photography, The Photo Review, Photo Technique, and World Book Encyclopedia as well as former Director of CEPA Gallery. He has published scores of articles about visual culture and interviewed numerous eminent imagemakers. Hirsch’s work has been internationally exhibited in over 200 solo and group shows.