Primitive photography : a guide to making cameras, lenses, and calotypes / Alan Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Alan, 1963-

Contributor:

Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Equipment and supplies--Design and construction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Guide to making cameras, lenses, and calotypes

Place of Publication:

Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

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.

Contents:

Cover; Primitive Photography: A Guide to Making Cameras, Lenses,and Calotypes; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 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 LensThe 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; Appendix: Sources of Supplies; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781136092695

1136092692

9781138170797

1138170798

9781136092701

1136092706

9780080514734

0080514731

OCLC:

606650720