ALTERNATIVE & HISTORIC PROCESSES. A Handbook for Photographers
My book used to accompany many of my teaching sessions. Originally designed for degree students, this has been expanded over the years to cover more processes and techniques, as well as advice on cameras, materials and making equipment.
Detailed recipe-style guides on all these processes:
Lumen Prints
Chemigrams
Cyanotype
Argyrotype
Salt Prints
Albumen Prints
Liquid Emulsion
Anthotypes
Polaroid Image Transfer
Emulsion Lifts
Bleaching Instant-Film Negatives
Direct Positive Colour Prints
Toning:
Sulphide Toning
Thiocarbamide (Thiourea) Toning
Selenium Toning
Iron (Blue) Toning
Iron/Sulphide (Green) Toning
Lith Printing
Hand Colouring
‘Silver Plate’ (Rockland Halo-Chrome) Toning
Carbon Printing
Photopolymer / Letterpress
There are also descriptive guides to:
Wet-Plate Collodion
Daguerreotype
(while not as detailed as the other process guides listed above they give an idea of what is involved for the advanced worker who wants to move into these processes)
There is also information on:
Equipment
Sensitising Materials
Exposing The Print
Digital Negatives
Paper Negatives
F-Stop Test Strips
Colour Filtration Grids
Cameras and LensesMaking Your Own Equipment
Available as a 124- page A4 physical book or as a download.
Some sample pages are shown here...

