Primitive Photography: A Guide To Making Cameras, Lenses, And Calotypes
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Primitive-GREENE
By Alan Greene. (2001). Focal. Soft-cover, 8 1/2 x 11, 192 pages, 8 color pages, 86 photographs, 49 illustrations. This book considers the hand-made photographic process in 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 procesesses and overlooked, developing-out printing methods. The book combines the simplicity of pinhole photography, the handmade quality of alternative process, 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.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Film Holder And Focusing Screen
The Camera Body
The Lens
The Calotype Paper Negative Process
The Calotype Salt Print Positive
Appendices
Sources Of Supplies
Index