Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sets aside old distinctions between photographer and nonphotographer and invites artists in all media to discover new photo imaging techniques through nonsilver photography.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Transfers and lifts
• Hand colouring
• Toning
• Creating the photo-printmaking studio
• Making the negatives
• Cyanotypes
• Van Dyke brown prints
• Gum bichromate prints
• Casein pigment prints
• Kwik prints
• Platinum and palladium prints
• Enlargement emulsions
• Resource Guide

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Booklist Review

Darkroom enthusiasts and graphic artists who want to explore hands-on ways of creating, altering, or transferring photo images will here find clear, step-by-step instructions. Blacklow describes several methods of toning, hand coloring, and lifting images from magazines, as well as for making cyanotypes and other pigmented print types, Kwik prints and photos using Liquid Light, a special paint-on emulsion for paper and many other surfaces. Particularly welcome in a volume of this sort are clear and emphatic warnings about health hazards and required protective equipment. Plenty of photos and drawings show setups and procedures clearly. Appropriate for the novice darkroom worker as well as the more experienced photographer who wants to explore non-silver processes. Annotated bibliography, glossary. --John Alderson

Author notes provided by Syndetics

She is on the faculty of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University's Visual and Environmental Studies Department. She has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for works on paper.

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