Making Kallitypes
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Making Kallitypes
This is the only book on the market that deals with this historical printing process, that is being revived amongst art photographers. It provides readers with everything they need to know about creating kallitypes, ranging from step-by-step technique through chemical formulas and describes tried and tested procedures for all phases of kallitype printing.
Kallitype: The Processes And The History
The title of my current Book is Kallitype: The Processes and The History The book is a detailed report of the major kallitype processes described with sufficient particulars for modem photographers to apply and work. The book discusses Kallitype I, Kallitype II, Kallitype III, and the Brown Print, tracing the published history of the invention, and improvements of all significant historical contributors to the development of each process. The historical framework of the book documents the original invention and the sale of each of the four processes. It discusses the many published kallitype printmakers from 1890 to 1930 who wrote about their way of working the process. It includes process information from kallitype entrepreneurs. It reports the critical responses to the published processes of many kallitype artists. Their writing elucidates approaches to the various processes, provides principles which govern successful kallitype practice and inform s current printmaker s about causes of failure and their resolution. The book includes discussion of the social, techno logic al, and artistic milieu that led kalliltypists and many amateurs, to elevate photography from what it was-a basically reproductive medium-into a creative, expressive art characterized by media plasticity. The book attempts to enlighten why and how photography carne to be a pictorial art that displayed creative work heavily involved with radical manipulation of negative and print possibilities.
Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype
Focusing on three iron-silver processes—kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and argyrotype—this book will guide readers through how to create prints using these accessible and historic processes in the digital age. Often termed the Brownprint processes, author Donald W. Nelson provides step-by-step detail on how to create prints using kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype methods, including information on the materials needed, troubleshooting issues, and examples from contemporary artists. The book consists of two parts. Part I is a step-by-step how-to section including all the information that a practitioner at any level needs to achieve successful kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype prints. Part II is devoted to contemporary artists who have integrated the process into their creative practice. The book includes the following: A list of equipment and supplies needed Concise step-by-step instructions for creating kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype prints successfully Troubleshooting common issues A range of creative ideas on how to use the processes in the classroom Examples from over 20 contemporary artists, including their prints and how they came to make them Ideal for students and professionals alike, this book is an accessible introduction to alternative process photography.