Primitive Photography

Name: Primitive Photography
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780240804613
Price: 118.0 NZD
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A Guide to Making Cameras, Lenses, and Calotypes

By Alan Greene

Series: Alternative Process Photography

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Summary

Primitive Photography explores the creation of handmade photographic tools and processes, guiding readers through making box cameras, lenses, paper negatives, and salt prints using affordable materials. The book blends step-by-step instructions with historical context and theoretical insights, covering various calotype and alternative printing methods. It uniquely merges pinhole simplicity, handcrafted techniques, and large-format precision, offering a comprehensive approach to photography beyond commercial and digital means.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is ideal for photography enthusiasts, artists, and craftspeople interested in traditional photographic processes and DIY techniques, especially those seeking a hands-on alternative to modern digital 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. This work presents step-by-step procedures alongside theoretical explanations and historical background.

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

Description

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.