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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: ALTERNATIVE PROCESSES
APP – 13 here, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Man With Baseballs - 2001 bromoil
CONTEMPORARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stephen Anchell, The Darkroom Cookbook (Boston: Focal Press, 1994).
Jan Arnow, Handbook of Alternative Photographic Processes (New York: Van Nostrand Reinholt Co., 1982).
Dick Arentz, Platinum & Palladium Printing: Second Edition, Focal Press, Elsevier, 2005
Dick Arentz, Outline for Platinum / Palladium Printing (self-published 3rd edition, 1998).
Janet Ashford & John Odam, Start With a Scan (Berkely,CA: Peachpit Press, 1996).
Geoffrey Batchen, Burning With Desire, Cambridge, MA, The M.I.T. Press, 1999
John Barnier, ed. Coming Into Focus (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2000).
Faber Birren and M.E. Chevreul, The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors and Their Applications to the Arts, Schiffer, Revised Edition, 2007
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, (New York: Broadway Books, 2003
Buckland, Gail, Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography, Boston, Godine, 1980
Peter C. Bunnell, ed. Non-silver Printing Processes (New York, NY: Arno Press, 1973)
Peter Bunnell, ed., A Photographic Vision: Pictorial Photography, 1889-1923, Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, 1980.
Dan Burkholder, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing (San Antonio, TX: Bladed Iris Press, 1998)
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, The Atlantic, 1945
Max Byrd, Shooting the Sun, Bantam / Random House, 2004
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Charles Caffin, Photography as a Fine Art, the Achievement and Possibilities of Photographic Art in America, 1901, (Reprint, with introduction by Thomas F. Barrow,) Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Morgan & Morgan, 1971
John Paul Caponigro, Adobe Photoshop Master Class, (San Jose, CA: Adobe Press, 2000)
John Paul Caponigro, Adobe Photoshop master Class: John Paul Caponigro, 2nd Edition, Adobe Press; 2 edition (February 14, 2003)
Cassell’s Cyclopedia of Photography, ed. by B. E. Jones, (New York: Arno Press, 1973)
Nancy Clark, Ventilation (New York: Lyons & Burford, 1990).
Brian Coe and Mark Haworth-Booth, A Guide to Early Photographic Processes (London, England: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983)
John Coffer, The Doers Guide, (includes 2 DVDs), self-published, 2000 and on-going
Athel Cornish-Bowden, “Elizabeth Fulhame and the Discovery of Catalysis 100 Years Before Buchner,” Journal of Bioscience, 23 (1998) Pp. 87-92
William Crawford, The Keepers of Light (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1979).
George DeWolfe, George DeWolfe’s Fine Digital Photography Workshop, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1st edition (April 25, 2006)
Robert Doty, Photo-Secession: Stieglitz and the Fine Art Movement in Photography, New York, Dover Publications, 1978
Will Dunniway, The Wet Collodion Plate: 16 Steps to Making the Plates, self-published 2010
George Eaton, Photographic Chemistry, Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1999).
Dan Estabrook, 3-D Gum Printing Worksheet and e-mail reply to Anthotype question, 1998).
Howard Etkin & Carson Graves, Toning Safety Ilford Photo Instructor Newsletter, 1997
Malin Fabri, Anthotypes - Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants, 2012
Richard Farber, Historic Photographic Processes, Allworth Press, New York, 1998
Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, Reaktion Books, London, 1983
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Peter Galassi, Before Photography - Painting and the Invention of Photography, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1981
Arnold Gassan, A Chronology of Photography, Athens, OH: Handbook Company, 1972
Arnold Gassan, Handbook for Contemporary Photography, 4th ed., Rochester, N.Y. Light Impressions, 4th edition, 1977
Helmut Gernsheim, The Origins of Photography, New York, Thames and Hudson, 1982
Allan Goodman, Elegant Images: Instructions and Troubleshooting Guide for Platinum and Palladium Photoprinting, Delaware, MD: Elegant Images, 1976
Christopher Grey, Photographer’s Guide to Polaroid Transfers, Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media, 1999
Alan Greene, Primitive Photography: A Guide to Making Cameras. Lenses, and Calotypes, Focal Press, 2001
Sarah Greenough, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1989
Betty Hahn, Photography or Maybe Not, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1995
John Hammond, The Camera Obscura: A Chronicle, (Bristol, England: Adam Hilger Ltd., 1981).
Margaret Harker, The Linked Ring: The Secession Movement in Photography in Britain, 1892-1910, London, Heineman, 1979 Barbara Hewitt, Blueprints of Fabric: Innovative Uses for Cyanotype, Loveland, CO: Interweave Press, 1995
Wolfgang Hesse, Hermann Krone. Historisches Lehmuseum fur Photographie, 1998. Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Technishe Universitat, Dresden
Ann Hoy, Fabrications, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987
Robert Hughes, Mirrors and Windows, Time Magazine, August 7, 1978
Christopher James, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes: 1st Edition, Delmar Thomson Learning, Albany, NY 2002
Christopher James, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes: 2nd Edition, Delmar Cengage, Albany, NY 2007
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Kate Jennings & Mark Osterman, Dr. Thomas Keith’s Waxed Paper Process Experiment - Part II, Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation (ARP) at George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, August 2002
Nancy Keeler, Inventors and Entrepreneurs, History of Photography, Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2002 - (Talbot in France, 1843)
Ross King, Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, Penguin, 2001
Ross King, Michelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling, Pimlico, 2006, New Edition
Jaromir Kosar, Light Sensitive Systems: Chemistry and Application of Non Silver Halide Photographic Processes (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1965).
Boris Kossoy, "Hercules Florence. Pioneer of Photography in Brazil", Image (George Eastman House), March 1977, Vol.20, No.1, p.12-21
Loring Knoblauch, “2013, The Year of Interdisciplinary Photography” Collectors Daily, January 2014
Steven Levy, Insanely Great, New York: Penguin Books, 1994
The Merck Index, Encyclopedia of Chemicals and Drugs, Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck & Co., 1968
Bonnie Pierce Lhotka, Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media, New Riders 2010 (wireless delivery from Amazon)
Luis Nadeau, History and Practice of Platinum Printing, New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1994
Luis Nadeau, Encyclopedia of Printing, Photographic & Photomechanical Processes (New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1989).
Luis Nadeau, Gum Dichromate, New Brunswick, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1987
Bea Nettles, Breaking the Rules: A Photo media Cookbook, Rochester, NY: Inky Press Productions, 1977, Expanded 3rd edition (Urbana, Illinois: 1992)
Beumont Newhall, The History of Photography, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1982
Beaumont Newhall, The Art and Science of Photography, Edited by Beaumont Newhall, Century House, Watkins Glen, NY, 1956
Mark Osterman, The Wet Plate Process; A Working Guide, Scully & Osterman, 2002
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Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, Turin Shroud: In Whose Image? The Truth Behind the Centuries-Long Conspiracy of Silence, Amherst, MA: Acacia Press, 1994
James Reilly, The Albumen and Salted Paper Book - The History and Practice of Photographic Printing 1840-1895, Light Impressions, Rochester, N.Y., 1980
Martin Reed and Sarah Jones, Silver Gelatin: A Users Guide to Liquid Emulsions, New York: Amphoto, 1996
Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer, Pinhole Photography, Focal Press, Stoneham, MA, 1994
Lyle Rexer, Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Process Photography, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002
Lyle Rexer, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Aperture, NY, 2013
Nancy Rexroth, The Platinotype 1977, Missoula, MT: Formulary Press / Violet Press, 1977
John Ross, Clare Romano, & Tim Ross, The Complete Printmaker, New York: Collier Macmillan Publishers, The Free Press, 1990
John Rudiak, The Platinotype, View Camera, January/February 1994.
John Rudiak, Creating a Platinotype, View Camera, July/August 1994.
Salman Rushdie, Random House, Midnight’s Children, 1981
David Scopick, The Gum Bichromate Book, Rochester, NY: Light Impressions, 1987
Larry Schaaf and Hans Kraus (contributor), Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms by Anna Atkins, New York: Aperture, 1985. This book is based on Anna Atkins’ 10-year, 3- volume collection entitled, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, privately printed (1843-1853
Larry Schaaf, Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot, and the Invention of Photography (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT: 1992) pp. 23-25.
Larry J Schaaf, 'The Talbot Collection: National Museum of American History', History of Photography, v. 24 n.1, Spring 2000, pp. 7-15.
Larry Schaaf - editor, The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, Project has prepared a comprehensive edition of the nearly 10,000 letters to and from Talbot
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(1800-1877), in association with De Montfort University, Leicester, web site; www.foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/
Susan Shaw and Monona Rossol (contributor), Overexposure: Health Hazards in Photography, New York: Allworth Press, 1991
Thomas Shillea, Instruction Manual for the Platinum Printing Process. 1986.
Jim Schull, The Hole Thing: A Manual of Pinhole Photography, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Morgan & Morgan, 1974
Judy Seigel, Ed., “Post Factory Photography” - Issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, New York: Post Factory Press, 1998 - 2000
Lucy Soutter, Why Art Photography, Routledge, London, 2013
Jerry Spagnoli, Daguerreotypes: 1995-2004, Steidl Publishing, Göttingen, Germany, 2006
D. A. Spencer, Ed., Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, London & New York: Focal Press, Ltd., 1973
Dick Stevens, Making Kallitypes - A Definitive Guide, Stoneham, MA: Butterworth & Heinemann, 1990
Craig Stevens, a Mordançage Process Worksheet… from Jean Paul Sudre notes, 1998
Dick Sullivan, Lab Notes, Van Nuys, CA: Bostick & Sullivan, 1982
Dick Sullivan and Carl Weese, The New Platinum Print, Santa Fe, NM, Working Pictures Press Book, 1998
John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973
George Tice, Processes: Palladium & Platinum, Modern Photography, March 1971
Hollis Todd & Richard Zakia, Photographic Sensitometry, Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1969
Alan Trachtenberg, ed. Classic Essays on Photography, New Haven, CT: Leete’s Island Books, 1980
Sarah Van Keuren, A Non-Silver Manual, self-published notes for students at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, 1999 - 2006
Kent Wade, Alternative Photographic Processes, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Morgan and Morgan, 1978
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Dr. Michael Ware, “The Argyrotype” British Journal of Photography, vol. 139, no. 6824 (13 June 1991) pp. 17-19
Dr. Michael Ware, Cyanotype: The History, Science & Art of Photographic Printing in Prussian Blue, London, England, Science Museum & National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1999
Mike Ware & Pradip Malde, A Contemporary Method for Making Photographic Prints in Platinum & Palladium, 1988
Dr. Michael Ware, Mechanisms of Image Deterioration in Early Photographs- the sensitivity to light of W.H.F. Talbot's halide-fixed images 1834-1844, London, England: Science Museum and National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1994
Dr. Michael Ware, Gold in Photography: The History and Art of Chrysotype, Abergavenny: ffotoffilm publishing, 2006
Dr. Michael Mike, The Chrysotype Manual: The Science and Practice of Photographic Printing in Gold, Abergavenny: ffotoffilm publishing 2006
Dr. Michael Ware, An Investigation of Platinum and Palladium Printing (Journal of Photographic Science, 1986) vol. 34, pp. 13-25.
Dr. Michael Ware, ‘The Eighth Metal: The Rise of the Platinotype Process’, in Photography 1900, The Edinburgh Symposium, 99-111, (National Museums of Scotland and National Galleries of Scotland, 1994).
Dr. Michael Ware, ‘Photographic Printing in Colloidal Gold’, Journal of Photographic Science, 42 (5), 157-161, (1994).
Bruce Warren, Photography, New York: Delmar Publishers, 1993
Roger Watson & Helen Rappaport, Capturing the Light: The birth of Photography, A True Story of Genius and Rivalry, St. Martins Press, NY, 2013
Randall Webb and Martin Reed, Spirits of Salts, (London, England: Argentum an imprint of Aurum Press, 1999).
Mike Wooldridge, Linda Wooldridge, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CS2, 2005
Lee Witkin and Barbara London, The Photograph Collector's Guide, Boston: New York Graphics Society, 1979
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EARLY & HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Aristotle, Problems, I. Books I-XXI., with English translation by W.S.Hett, London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936
W. de W. Abney, and Lyonel Clark, Platinotype, London, England: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1895
W. de W. Abney, and Lyonel Clark, Platinotype, Scovill & Adams of New York, New York, 1898
W. de W. Abney, Instruction in Photography, London, England, Piper and Carter, 1886
Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, London, translated by Cecil Grayson (London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1972).
Count Francesco Algorotti, Essays on Painting, London, England, Davis & Reymers, 1764
Paul Anderson, Pictorial Photography, Its Principals and Practice, New York: J.B. Lippincot, 1917, (republished as The Technique of Pictorial Photography, 1939).
Paul Anderson, Handbook of Photography, New York: Whittlesey House, 1939
Anna Atkins, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, Halstead Place, Sevenoaks, 3 volumes, privately printed (1843-1853). A dozen copies are known to exist. The first volume of images was issued in October 1843 (prior to Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature). See: Schaaf, L.J. and Kraus, H.P., “Sun Gardens -Victorian photograms by Anna Atkins,” New York: Aperture Books (1985).
George E. Brown, F.I.C., Ferric & Heliographic Processes, London: Dawbarn & Ward, Ltd, 1900.
Rev. W. H. Burbank, Photographic Printing Methods, New York, Scovill & Adams Co., 1891
Rev. W. H. Burbank, The Photographic Negative Written As a Practical Guide to the Presentation of Sensitive Surfaces by the Calotype, Albumen, Collodion, and Gelatine Processes, On Glass and Paper, With Supplementary Chapters on Development, Etc., Etc, (Scovill Manufacturing, New York)s, 1888
M.E Chevreul, De La Loi du Contraste Simultane des Coleurs, Pitois – Levrault, 1839
M.E Chevreul, The Principles of Harmony and Contrasts of Colors and Their Application to the Arts, first English translation Edition, 1854.
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Lyonel Clark, Platinum Toning: Introducing Directions for the Production of the Sensitive Paper, New York: E & H T Anthony and Co., 1890
L. P. Clerc, The Technique of Photography, Bath, England, Henry Greenwood & Company, 1930, & Pitman & Sons, NY 1930
Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond, 'The Simplicity of the Calotype Process” - Notes and Queries - A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, Etc. – Volume 8th - December 17th, 1853 – London, George Bell, 186 Fleet Street, 1853
Peter Henry Emerson, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1886
Peter Henry Emerson, Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889
Peter Henry Emerson, The Death of Naturalistic Photography, London, self published, 1890
Edward Estabrooke, The Ferrotype and How to Make It, 1872 & 1903 in twelve revised editions. Morgan & Morgan printed the last version in 1974
Frank R. Fraprie & Walter E. Woodbury, Photographic Amusements: Including tricks and Unusual or Novel Effects Obtainable with the Camera, Boston: American Photographic Publishing, 1931
Frank R. Fraprie and Florence O’Connor, Photographic Amusements: Including tricks and Unusual or Novel Effects Obtainable with the Camera, Boston: American Photographic Publishing, 1937
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (aka Eleanor Rigby), Photography, From the London Quarterly Review, April 1857, pp. 442-68
Elizabeth Fulhame, An Essay on Combustion, With a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting, wherein the Phlogistic and Antiphlogistic Hypotheses are proved Erroneous, London: self-published in 1794 by the author
W. Jerome Harrison, Scoville Photographic Series, A History of Photography, New York: Scoville Mfg. Company, 1887
W. Jerome Harrison, The Chemistry of Photography, Scoville & Adams Company, New York, 1892
J.F.W Herschel, On the Action of Light in Determining the precipitation of Muriate of Platinum by Lime-Water, London and Edinburgh Philosophical magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. I, July 1832
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J.F.W. Herschel, ‘On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum on preparations of silver and other substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some photographic processes’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1840, pp. 1-59
J.F.W Herschel, “On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Vegetable Colours and on Some New Photographic Processes,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no.202 (London: 1842).
Margaret Herschel, Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel, Appleton & Co., New York, 1876
Ibn al-Haitam, On the Form of an Eclipse circa: 1038. This document can be found at the India Office Library in London.
Robert Hunt, Researches on Light, London: Longman, Brown Green and Longmans, 1844, reprinted Arno Press, New York, 1973, p. 150.
Bernard E. Jones ed., Cassell's Cyclopaedia of Photography, London, Cassell and Co., 1911
Edward MacCurdy, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1938
C. B. Neblette, Photography: its Materials and Processes, New York, Van Nostrand Co., 1927
Isidore Niépce (son of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce), History of the discovery improperly called daguerreotype, Paris: Astier, 1841
G. Pizzighelli, Baron A Hübl, Platinotype, London, Harrison and Sons, 1886
Rev. J. B. Reade, a letter to Robert Hunt written on February 13, 1854, that you will find most entertaining.
Karl Wilhelm Scheele, Chemical Observations and Experiments on Air and Fire (1777)
R. S. Schultze, “Rediscovery and Description of original material on the Photographic Researches of Sir F.W. John Herschel, 1939-1944” Journal of Photographic Science, Vol 13, 1965
Jean Senebier, Mémoires physico-chimiques sur l'influence de la lumière solaire, Genève 1782, vol. III
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Henry Snelling, The History and Practice of the Art of Photography, Published BY G. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway, 1849. Note: the chapter on the Calotype and Chrysotype, Chapter IX, is particularly informative.
Mary Somerville, On the Action of Rays of the Spectrum on Vegetable Juices, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 136, 1846
Thomas Sutton, A Dictionary of Photography by Thomas Sutton (editor of Photographic Notes) London - Sampson Low Son and Co, 47 Ludgate Hill – 1858
Thomas Sutton, The Calotype Process. A Hand Book to Photography on Paper, first edition, frontispiece with 2 mounted specimens of unwashed and washed iodized paper, 12 pages of advertisements at end, publisher's orange flexible cloth, front endpapers dampstained [Gernsheim 749], 8vo, Joseph Cundall, 1854
Thomas Sutton, A New Method of Printing Photographs, By Which Permanent and Artistic Results May be Uniformily Obtained, St. Brelade's Bay, Jersey: [self-published], 1855
Thomas Sutton, "On Printing by Development." Photographic Notes, Vol. 1, no. 1 (1 January 1856): pp. vii-viii. ,1858.
William Henry Fox Talbot, Calotype Photogenic Drawing, Communique to the Royal Society, London, June 10, 1841.
William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, London: Longman, Brown Green & Longmans, 1844
William Henry Fox Talbot, Fine Arts / Royal Society, Letter sent to the Royal Society on February 20, 1839, clarifying the specifics in the production of Photogenic Drawings.
William Henry Fox Talbot, Photogenic Drawing details, The Literary Gazette, London, February 22, 1839.
William Henry Fox Talbot, From the The Chemical Gazzette, Volume II, 1844 - Page 55 - (Patents by William Henry Fox Talbot for Improvements in Photography – June 1843) - Published by Richard and John E. Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet St., London
Norman Tiphaigne de la Roche, Giphantie, Paris, 1760
John A. Tennant, ed., The Photominiature #47, London, Dawbarn and Ward, 1903
John Tennant. The Photo-Miniature, #10, London, Dawbarn and Ward, January, 1900
John Tennant. The Photo-Miniature, #69, London, Dawbarn and Ward, December 1904
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John Towler, The Silver Sunbeam, (Joseph H. Ladd, NY, 1864) This book was last printed by Morgan & Morgan in 1974.
E. J. Wall and Franklin I. Jordan, Photographic Facts and Formulas, Boston: American Photographic Publishing Co., 1947
H. Snowden Ward, Figures, Facts and Formulae of Photography, London, Dawbarn and Ward, 1903
W. A. Watts, The Photographic Reference Book, London Iliffe and Son, 1896
Wedgewood and Davy, An Account of a method of Copying paintings Upon Glass and Making Profiles by the Agency of Light Upon Nitrate of Silver (1802)
Hans Thøger Winther, Anviisning til paa Trende Forskjellige Veie at fembringe of fastholde Lysbilleder paa papir, 1845 (self published – 3 featured processes)
Fig: APP – 14 here, Etienne Carjat, Charles Baudelaire, 1863 – (Woodburytype)
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