Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer: A Beginner's Guide - Softcover

Post, Morgan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367609029 ISBN 13: 9780367609023

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

A comprehensive textbook, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer explores the ways in which the materiality and science of photography and aesthetic concepts of contemporary photography can work together in an accessible way. The book explores processes such as calotype, wet plate collodion, cyanotype, platinum and palladium, gum bichromate and digital. It explains not only the historical context behind these processes but draws on examples from contemporary practitioners to show how the processes can be used within the field of contemporary photography.

Author Morgan Post exemplifies the creative ways in which a contemporary photographer can engage with alternative process photography as a beginner and includes contributions from Takashi Arai, Alida Rodrigues, Binh Danh, Diana H. Bloomfield and many others from around the world. The textbook is accompanied by a companion website offering accessible step-by-step video instructions that demonstrate the processes explored.

Bridging analogue and digital media, the textbook is ideal for students of photography and amateur photographers with an interest in alternative methods to photography.

About this title

About the Author

Morgan Post is Adjunct Professor of Photography at Fairfield University, USA. He conducts workshops and research at The Penumbra Foundation in New York City and lectures nationally and internationally.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367609029
• ISBN 13: 9780367609023
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300