Photographic Possibilities

Photographic possibilities: the expressive use of equipment, ideas, materials, and processes by Robert Hirch (3rd edition) is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Essential Moments in Photographic Printmaking -- The Language of Photography -- Concepts and Technology Affecting Photographic Printmaking -- Extending Photographic Boundaries -- Electronic Imaging: New Ways of Seeing -- Possessing a Sense of History

Chapter 2. Predarkroom Actions: Imaginative Thinking and Personal Safety -- Establishing a Personal Creation Process -- Photographic Origins -- Thinking within a System -- Purposes of Photography -- Essential Safety Guidelines -- Contact Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities and Poison Control -- Disposing of Chemistry -- Darkroom Ventilation -- Water for Photographic Processes

Chapter 3. Image Capture: Special-Use Films, Processing and Digital Negative Making -- Film and the Photographer -- General Film Processing Procedures -- Infrared Black-and-White Films -- Heightening Grain and Contrast -- Ultra-Fine Grain Black-and-White Film: Ilford Pan F Plus -- High-Contrast Litho Films -- Orthochromatic Film -- Paper Negatives and Positives: Contemporary Calotypes -- Reversing Black-and-White Film -- Instant Positive and Negative Film -- Film for Classic Cameras -- Processing Black-and-White Film for Permanence -- Digital Negative Making: An Overview -- Scanners

Chapter 4. Formulas of One's Own -- Prepared Formulas or Mixing Your Own -- Basic Equipment -- Chemicals -- Preparing Formulas -- US Customary Weights and Metric Equivalents

Chapter 5. Black-and-White Film Developers -- What Happens to Silver-Based Films During Exposure and Processing? -- Image Characteristics of Film -- Components and Characteristics of Black-and-White Developers -- Basic Developer Types -- Postdevelopment Procedures -- Film Developer Formulas and their Applications -- Is All this Necessary?

Chapter 6. Analog Fine Printmaking: Equipment, Materials, and Processes -- The Analog Fine Printmaking Process -- Printing Equipment -- Standard Printing Materials -- Print Finishing -- Special Printing Materials -- Processing Prints for Permanence

Chapter 7. Black-and-White Paper Developers -- Paper Developer and Developing-out Paper -- Components of Black-and-White Silver Print Developers -- Additional Processing Factors -- Controlling Contrast During Development -- Matching Developer and Paper -- Developer Applications and Characteristics -- Other Paper Developer Formulas

Chapter 8. Toning for Visual Effects -- Processing Controls -- Basic Types of Toners -- Processing Prints to be Toned -- General Working Procedures for Toners -- Brown Toners -- Blue Toners -- Red Toners -- Green Toners -- Toning Variations

Chapter 9. Special Cameras and Equipment -- What Is a Camera? -- The Pinhole Camera -- Custom Cameras -- Plastic Cameras -- Disposable Cameras -- Changing the Angle of View -- Panoramic Cameras -- Sequence Cameras -- Obsolete Special-use Cameras -- Stereoscopic Photography -- Stroboscopic Photography -- Underwater Equipment and Protection

Chapter 10. Historic and Alternative Processes: Beauty, Imagination and Inventiveness -- Paper and the Image Viewing Experience -- Exposure -- Salt Prints -- Cyanotype Process -- Ambrotype Process: Wet-plate Collodion Positives on Glass -- Kallitype and Vandyke Brownprint Processes -- Chrysotype Process -- Platinum and Palladium Processes -- Gum Bichromate Process -- The Bromoil Process -- Gumoil -- Mordançage -- Lith Printing -- Electrostatic Processes: Copy Machines

Chapter 11. Transforming Photographic Concepts: Expanding the Lexicon -- Hand-Altered Work -- Photograms -- Chemigram -- Cliché-verre -- Extended Camera Exposures -- Postcamera Techniques: in Search of Time -- Multiple-Exposure Methods -- Fabrication: Happenings for the Camera -- Composite Variations -- Processing Manipulation: Reticulation -- Hand-Coloring -- Airbrushing -- Transfers and Stencils -- Cross-Processing: Slides as Negatives -- Pictures From a Screen