Primitive Photography

A Guide to Making Cameras, Lenses, and Calotypes

Alan Greene

240 pages, parution le 11/01/2002

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Résumé

Primitive Photography considers the hand-made photographic process in its entirety, showing the reader how to make box-cameras, lenses, paper negatives and salt prints, using inexpensive tools and materials found in most hardware and art-supply stores. Step-by-step procedures are presented alongside theoretical explanations and historical background. Streamlined calotype procedures are demonstrated, featuring different paper negative processes and overlooked, developing-out printing methods.

Primitive Photography combines the simplicity of pinhole photography, the handmade quality of alternative processes, and the precision of large-format. For those seeking alternatives to commercially prepared material as well as digital photography, it provides the instructions for creating the entire photographic process from the ground up. Given its scope and treatment of the photographic process as a whole, this may be the first book of its kind to appear in over a century.

* Step-by-step directions for building cameras and lenses

* Highly illustrated with over 135 black and white color illustrations

* Includes suggested reading lists, sources for supplies, and safety tips

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 The Film-Holder

Determining the Format
Tools Needed
Materials Needed
The Wet-Paper Process Film-Holder
The Dry, Waxed-Paper Film-Holder
Ground-Glass Substitutes

2 The Camera Body

Tools Needed
Materials Needed
The Sliding Box-Camera
The Folding-Camera
Wood Joining Procedure

3 The Lens

Lens Configurations
Physical Properties
Tools Needed
Materials Needed
The Singlet, or Landscape Lens
The Symmetrical Duplet, or Periscopic Lens
The Asymmetrical Duplet, or Portrait Lens
The Symmetrical Triplet
Lens Boards and Lens Caps

4 Calotype Paper Negatives

Chemicals Needed
Materials Needed
The Wet-Paper Process
The Dry, Waxed-Paper Process

5 Salt Prints by Development

Chemicals Needed
Materials Needed
Salt Processes
The Serum Process

App.: Sources of Supplies

Bibliography

Index

L'auteur - Alan Greene

Author Biography: Alan Greene is a professional photographer and has held numerous solo exhibitions in the US and France. Currently, he teaches courses at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Focal Press
Auteur(s)	Alan Greene
Parution	11/01/2002
Nb. de pages	240
Format	21,5 x 28
Couverture	Broché
Poids	720g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780240804613
ISBN13	978-0-240-80461-3