Christina Z. Anderson's work focuses on the contemporary vanitas printed in a variety of 19th century photographic processes. Anderson's work has shown nationally and internationally in 120 shows and 60 publications. Anderson has authored books which have sold in over 40 countries-The Experimental Photography Workbook, Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes, Gum Printing, A Step by Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, Salted Paper Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists, and Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice; also Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP, Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers co-authored with Ron Reeder, and Handcrafted: The Art and Practice of the Handmade Print co-authored with Wang, Jianming, and King. Anderson is Series Editor for Focal Press/Routledge's Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography series and Professor of Photography at Montana State University. To see her work, visit [...].

Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: Setting Up the Contemporary Darkroom, Chapter 2: Digital Negatives for the Contemporary Darkroom Part 1: Cameraless Experimentaation, Chapter 3: Photograms and Cliché-Verres, Chapter 4: Lumenprints, Chapter 5: The Chemigram Part 2: Camera Experimentation, Chapter 6: Pinhole and Zoneplate, Chapter 7: The Holga, Part 3 - Printing Experimentation, Chapter 8: Chromo, Chapter 9: Liquid Emulsion and Modern Tintype, Chapter 10: Lith Printing, Chapter 11: Sabattier, Part 4 - Finished Print Experimentation, Chapter 12: Mordancage, Chapter 13: Bleaching and Bleachout, Chapter 14: Toning, Chapter 15: Applied Color and Abrasion Tone, Chapter 16: Encaustic, Collage, Photomontage, Chapter 17: Bromoil, Part 5: Contemporary Experimental Artistis, Appendix, Bibliography