Primitive Photography: A Guide to Making Cameras, Lenses, and Calotypes (Alternative Process Photography) - Softcover

Greene, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240804619 ISBN 13: 9780240804613

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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Alan Greene

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0240804619
• ISBN 13: 9780240804613
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248