| Description |
xvi, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Film-Holder -- Determining the Format -- Tools Needed -- Materials Needed -- The Wet-Paper Process Film-Holder -- The Dry, Waxed-Paper Film-Holder -- Ground-Glass Substitutes -- 2. The Camera Body -- Tools Needed -- Materials Needed -- The Sliding Box-Camera -- The Folding-Camera -- Wood Joining Procedure -- 3. The Lens -- Lens Configurations -- Physical Properties -- Tools Needed -- Materials Needed -- The Singlet, or Landscape Lens -- The Symmetrical Duplet, or Periscopic Lens -- The Asymmetrical Duplet, or Portrait Lens -- The Symmetrical Triplet -- Lens Boards and Lens Caps -- 4. Calotype Paper Negatives -- Chemicals Needed -- Materials Needed -- The Wet-Paper Process -- The Dry, Waxed-Paper Process -- 5. Salt Prints by Development -- Chemicals Needed -- Materials Needed -- Salt Processes -- The Serum Process |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index |
| Subject |
Photography -- Equipment and supplies -- Design and construction.
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Photography, Pinhole.
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| LC no. |
2001040230 |
| ISBN |
0240804619 (paperback) |
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