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Carbon Transfer Printing

A Step-by-Step Manual, Featuring Contemporary Carbon Printers and Their Creative Practice
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Carbon Transfer Printing explores one of the earliest photographic processes that provided permanent printing methods for over 150 years. The book offers an extensive history of carbon transfer and related pigment techniques in black and white and colour. It serves as a comprehensive guide for beginners mastering the craft and experienced printers seeking advanced methods. Featuring 175 photographs, it covers practical how-to instructions, digital negatives, workplace organisation, supplies, UV light choices, troubleshooting, and multi-layer printing for tonal or full-colour images. The second part shares insights and techniques from contemporary carbon printers, making it both a historical and practical resource.
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This title is ideal for photography enthusiasts, artists, and printmakers interested in alternative and historical printing methods. It suits both beginners wishing to learn carbon transfer printing and experienced practitioners eager to expand their expertise with modern digital adaptations and advanced techniques.

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Carbon Transfer Printing is a book about one of the earliest photographic processes that provided the first permanent printing methods, available in one form or another for over 150 years. This book reviews the extensive history of carbon transfer and related pigment processes in both monochrome and color.

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Carbon Transfer Printing is a book about one of the earliest photographic processes that provided the first permanent printing methods, available in one form or another for over 150 years. This book reviews the extensive history of carbon transfer and related pigment processes in both monochrome and colour, serving as a point source for a new carbon printer to begin to master the craft of carbon printing, as well as providing new material for experienced carbon printers to expand their techniques. The book includes never-before-published information on pre-sensitising carbon tissue with newly identified compounds, information on the safe use and disposal of hexavalent chromium compounds, and simplified methods of producing 3-colour carbon prints.

Carbon Transfer Printing is divided into two parts, illustrated with 175 photographs. Part One is a complete how-to on the carbon transfer process, from simple to complex, with a troubleshooting guide and an extensive chapter on digital negatives. Part Two is devoted to contemporary carbon printers who share their methods and secrets to creating their beautiful carbon prints.

Topics that the book covers are:

  • Key events in carbon’s history
  • How to organise the carbon workplace
  • Sections on necessary supplies and equipment
  • A step-by-step digital method of making high-quality digital negatives
  • Simple and advanced methods of carbon printing
  • How to make carbon tissue, including several methods of pre-sensitising
  • How to choose UV light sources for printing in carbon
  • Step-by-step processing directions
  • How to prepare final support papers
  • Troubleshooting carbon
  • Multi-layer printing to add tone, or make a full-colour carbon print
  • Finishing and final presentation of carbon prints
  • A gallery of images and advice from contemporary carbon printers

Carbon Transfer Printing is designed for both the beginning carbon enthusiast and the advanced practitioner. Backed with extensive research on carbon printing from books, journals, and magazine articles from the 1800s to the present day, alongside the extensive personal experience in carbon printing of the authors, there is enough information in this book to provide inspiration and proof of both the glorious past of carbon printmaking and its enduring importance to a new generation of image makers who value the handmade print.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138353831

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 September 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 2 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, color; 175 Halftones, color; 179 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 660g

Pages: 266

About the Author

Sandy King has been a fine art photographer since the early 1970s, printing with carbon transfer, kallitype, platinum/palladium and Van Dyke. For over two decades, King has devoted much of his time to carbon printing with publication of personal work in Photovision, Silvershotz and View Camera, conducting carbon printing workshops, and author of numerous publications. To see his work, visit www.sandykingphotography.com

Don Nelson has been a large format photographer since 1976, using 8x10, 7x17, and 12x20 inch cameras. Nelson has been an alternative process printer for the past three decades, using primarily carbon and platinum/palladium since 1991, although he has experimented with most alternative processes.

John Lockhart was inspired by the platinum work of Paul Outerbridge which led him to handcrafted printmaking and ultimately carbon transfer. In his work, Lockhart combines the authenticity and immediacy of documentary and street photography with a painstaking approach to printing each image as a handcrafted artifact. Lockhart is also involved in preserving, evolving, and teaching the craft. To see his work, visit www.johnlockhart.net

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