Delmar Cengage Learning 2009, softcover, 8 1/2 x 11", 601 pages, black & white and color illustations

Photographic artists and students of alternative process photography will welcome this new edition of Christopher James' The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes. This significantly expanded edition is a full-color, lavishly illustrated, comprehensive resource that explores every aspect of alternative process image making.

With his highly conversational writing style, Christopher James explores the techniques, processes, idiosyncrasies, history, and cultural connections that are such a significant part of the genre. Best of all, Christopher makes it extremely accessible, providing clear instructions and practical workflow advice. The book delves into a vast menu of alternative and traditional options, among them: calotype, salted paper, cyanotype, argyrotype, chrysotype, POP, kallitype, ambrotype/wet collodion, Van Dyke, platinum/palladium, Ziatype, gelatin dry plate emulsions, carbon, gum bichromate, albumen, hand-applied emulsions, paper, alternative imaging systems, and digital negative production for alternative process image making.

The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes has become the unanimous standard reference text for alternative process photography, one that students love to read and work from. Not only does this definitive work make the most complex ideas easy to understand, it is conversational, comfortable, inspirational, and fun to read- a tremendous resource and a treasure trove of alternative process images.

Table of Contents:

1. The Pinhole: Making pictures with a box of air
2. Salted paper
3. The Calotype Process and the art of fixing shadows
4. The Negative: Alternative process options 5. The Digital Options: An odd history, workflows for negatives & the digital arts
6. The Anthotype & Chlorophyll Process: The art of printing with flowers and vegitation
7. The Cyanotype Process
8. Cyanotype: variations & adaptations
9. The Argyrotype Process
10.The Van Dyke, Brown Print & Blue Van Dyke
11.The Kallitype Process
12.The New Chrysotype Process
13.The Platinum/Palladium Process
14.The Ziatype Process
15.Paper & alternative substrates: History, Considerations, Preparation & sizing
16.The Gum Bichromate Process
17.Dichromate Options: The Chromatype, The Dusting-On Process, Alternative Surfaces for Gum, 3D Gum, Bichromate
18.The Carbon Print Process
19.POP: Printing Out Paper
20.Tin Types & Hand Applied Emulsions
21.The Albumen Process
22.Wet Collodion & Gelatin Dry Plate Emulsion
23.Light Marking: Photographic Alternatives

Appendices:
A- Safety Considerations and Data for Chemicals used in this book
B- Small Volume Conversion Table
C- Light & Exposure Options
D- An Alternative Process Working Space
E- Alternative Process Shopping List
F- Resources & Internet Sites
G- Selective Bibliography: Alternative Processes
INDEX