The Darkroom Cookbook

by Steve Anchell

Overview

The fifth edition of this comprehensive guide to darkroom photography is fully revised and updated, placing analog and traditional methods into the context of a digital world and contemporary workflows.

Including invaluable analog photography techniques, chemicals and equipment, and supported by visual examples. Over 200 updated recipes for darkroom experiments, and tips for mastering the darkroom. Includes the chemicals used to develop, fix, stop and tone, alongside invaluable information on making enlarged digital negatives, planning a darkroom, and safety in handling photographic chemicals. Featuring new sections on split-printing, solarization, and making your own gelatin emulsion. The fifth edition includes contributions and stunning black and white imagery by established artists such as Bruce Barnbaum, Tim Rudman, Christina Z. Anderson, John Sexton, and more.

This is the essential guide for any practitioner who wants to develop a thorough understanding of film and darkroom processes, techniques, and working methodologies, as well as graduate and advanced photography students with an interest in analog and darkroom photography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032404882
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/22/2024
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	442
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steve Anchell is an internationally published writer, award-winning photographer, and teacher with work exhibited and shown in more than 61 exhibits. He has taught for Oregon State University, Santa Fe Photography Workshops, and the International Center of Photography in NYC, and he teaches workshops. He is a member of the Freestyle Photographic Board of Advisors. Steve has five books on photography published by Focal Press: The Darkroom Cookbook, The Film Developing Cookbook, Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera, The Variable Contrast Printing Manual, and Digital Photo Assignments. He is the former editor of Photovision: Art and Technique and Focus Fine Art Photography magazines and has written for and worked as a contributing editor for numerous photography magazines.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Planning a Darkroom; Chapter 2: Equipment; Chapter 3: Film; Chapter 4: Film Developers; Chapter 5: Types of Film Developers; Chapter 6: Film Development; Chapter 7: Pyrogallol and Pyrocatechin; Chapter 8: Print Developers; Chapter 9: Paper; Chapter 10: Printing Methods and Techniques; Chapter 11: Printing Techniques of Master Printers; Chapter 12: Stop Baths and Fixers; Chapter 13: Toning Prints; Chapter 14: Reduction and Intensification; Chapter 15: Enlarged Digital Negatives; Chapter 16: Printing Out Processes; Chapter 17: Print Solarization; Chapter 18: Making a Simple Silver Bromide Gelatin Emulsion

Editorial Reviews

"This is the classic guide for analog photography enthusiasts interested in high-quality darkroom work... In addition to 'recipes' for darkroom experiments, this book contains invaluable information on developers, push-processing, reversal processing, enlarged negatives, pyro formulas, printing, and toning prints." — shutterhub.org.uk, August 2017

“For everyone working with traditional film and darkroom procedures—which I rely on exclusively

for all my black and white work...because it’s still the best—The Darkroom Cookbook is essential

for your library. No other book puts it all together as thoroughly and understandably as this book.”

Bruce Barnbaum, author of The Art of Photography

“For many decades, Steve Anchell has dedicated himself to solid no-nonsense research and

information gathering on the entire breadth of black and white film and paper processing. And he

is still at it. I consider this book essential for all darkroom work and keep a much used copy right in

my darkroom. This book now stands alone for information of this kind.”

Gordon Hutchings, photographer and author of The Book of Pyro

“Steve Anchell has done a fantastic job of creating THE essential reference for everyone who uses

film or prints in a darkroom. The Darkroom Cookbook contains the best and most useful of film

photography’s formulas, plus an immense amount of information on how to use them correctly.”

John Wimberley, photographer

From the Publisher

Offers techniques for film and paper development, and 206 photographic formulas. The second edition fills out the areas of warm-tone paper developers and toners, amidol film development, monobaths, and archival processing of films and papers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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