Denise Ross has been a photographer for over 30 years and has been at the forefront of the handmade silver gelatin renaissance. Combining her background in science, research, and love of traditional black and white photography, Ross has extensively researched and reverse-engineered historic emulsion formulas and techniques for contemporary use. Ross created The Light Farm in 2008, a teaching website devoted to handmade silver gelatin emulsions and published an accompanying book of the same name. Ross's work has been exhibited nationally and has appeared in publications such as Photo Techniques, Large Format Photography, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, and Jill Enfields's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes. To see her work, visit [...]

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

SECTION I-The Important Stuff Before the Recipes

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Vocabulary

Chapter 3. The Darkroom

Chapter 4. Materials

Chapter 5. The Basics

Chapter 6. Coating Paper

Chapter 7. Troubleshooting Coating

Chapter 8. Printing

Chapter9. Processing

Chapter 10. Toning and Other Ways to Add Color

SECTION II-The Recipes

Chapter 11. Developers

Chapter12. Baryta Coating Surface

Baryta Paper Coating

Chapter13 . Potassium Chloride (KCl) "Gaslight" Contact Printing Paper

Chapter14. Three Salts Contact Printing Paper

Chapter15. Chlorobromide (Kodabromide-Type) All-Purpose Paper

Chapter16. Bromide Paper for Enlarging and Contact Printing Paper

Chapter17. Gelatin-Chloride Printing-Out Paper (POP)

Chapter 18. Paper Negatives

SECTION III-The Contributors

Chapter 19. Ian Andvaag

Chapter 20. Radoslaw Brzozowski

Chapter21. Didier Derien

Chapter 22. Edward Durrill

Chapter 23. Cate Sampson

Chapter 24. George L Smyth

Bibliography