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Alternative Photography Subject Guide
Alternative Photography: Revival of historical photographic methods and techniques; photographic images created by unconventional or unusual processes.
Read about alternative (non‐silver) photographic processes in the
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph available through Oxford Reference.
All of the books on this subject guide can be currently found on the
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- the white display near the Reference Desk.
History of Photography
- New image frontiers : defining the future of photography (2012)
- Camera : a history of photography from daguerreotype to digital (2009)
- Playing with pictures : the art of Victorian photocollage (2009)
- America and the tintype (2008)
- Brought to light : photography and the invisible, 1840-1900 (2008)
- The printed picture (2008)
- Medium and large format photography : moving beyond 35-mm for better pictures (2001)
- Celebrating the negative (1994)
- The gum bichromate book : non-silver methods for photographic printmaking (1991)
- The Daguerreotype : a sesquicentennial celebration (1989)
- On the art of fixing a shadow : one hundred and fifty years of photography (1989)
- Gum dichromate and other direct carbon processes, from Artigue to Zimmerman (1987)
- History and practice of platinum printing (1986)
- The power of light : daguerreotypes from the Robert Harshorn Shimshak collection (1986)
- Camera work : process & image (1985)
- The formative decades : photography in Great Britain, 1839-1920 (1985)
- A century of cameras from the collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (1982)
- Color as form : a history of color photography (1982)
- The origins of photography (1982)
- The American daguerreotype (1981)
- The albumen & salted paper book : the history and practice of photographic printing, 1840-1895 (1980)
- The ambrotype, old & new (1980)
- The keepers of light : a history & working guide to early photographic processes (1979)
- The stereoscope; its history, theory, and construction (1971)
- The silver sunbeam (1969)
Alternative Processes
- Digital negatives : using Photoshop to create digital negatives for silver and alternative process printing (2007)
- New dimensions in photo processes : a step-by-step manual in alternative photography (2007)
- Alternative photography : art & artists (2006)
- Alternative processes condensed : a manual of gum dichromate and other contact printing processes (2006)
- Photo art : in-camera, darkroom, digital, mixed media (2003)
- Book of alternative photographic processes (2002)
- Photography's antiquarian avant-garde : the new wave in old processes (2002)
- Photo-imaging : a complete guide to alternative processes (2002)
- Photographic possibilities : the expressive use of ideas, materials, and processes (2001)
- Coming into focus : a step-by-step guide to alternative photographic printing processes (2000)
- Photo art processes (1980)
- The new photography : a guide to new images, processes, and display techniques for photographers (1984)
- Handbook of alternative photographic processes (1982)
Darkroom and Printing
- Darkroom dynamics : a guide to creative darkroom techniques (1985)
- The elements of black-and-white printing : going beyond darkroom basics (2001)
- In the darkroom : an illustrated guide to photographic processes before the digital age (2010)
- The life of a photograph : archival processing, matting, framing, and storage (1984)
Printmaking
- Intersections : lithography, photography, and the traditions of printmaking (1998)
- Printmaking in the sun : an artist's guide to making professional-quality prints using the solarplate method (2001)
- Photographic printmaking techniques (1982)
- Creative photo printmaking (1996)
Handpainting Photographs
- The art of handpainting photographs (1998)
- The painted photograph, 1839-1914 : origins, techniques, aspirations (1996)
- Handcoloring photographs (1994)
Polaroid
- The Polaroid book : selections from the Polaroid Collections of photography (2005)
- Photographer's guide to Polaroid transfer (1999)
- Polaroid transfers : a complete visual guide to creating image and emulsion transfers (1997)
- Polaroid black & white Land films : a guide : Polaroid instant photograph (1983)
- Storing, handling, and preserving Polaroid photographs : a guide : Polaroid instant photography (1983)
- SX-70 art (1979)
- Polaroid Land photography (1978)
Low-Tech Photography
- Plastic cameras : toying with creativity (2011)
- Photojojo! : insanely great photo projects and DIY Ideas (2009)
- Lomo (2007)
- The invented camera : low tech photography & sculpture (2005)
- Pinhole photography : rediscovering a historic technique (2004)
- Primitive photography : a guide to making cameras, lenses, and calotypes (2002)
- The beginner's guide to pinhole photography (1999)
High Dynamic Range (HDR)
- Fine art photography : high dynamic range (2011)
- HDR photography photo workshop (2009)
- Complete guide to high dynamic range digital photography (2008)
Artist Monograph
- Helios : Eadweard Muybridge in a time of change (2010)
- László Moholy-Nagy : the art of light (2010)
- Sally Mann : the flesh and the spirit (2010)
- Andy Warhol, 1928-1987 : commerce into art (2007)
- Stefanie Schneider : stranger than paradise (2006)
- Self-Portraits 1967-2005 / Chuck Close (2005)
- Adam Fuss (2003)
- The photographic art of William Henry Fox Talbot (2000)
- Mathew Brady and the image of history (1997)
- Man Ray : 1890-1976 (1992)
- Chuck Close (1987)
- Andy Warhol (1983)
- The autochromes of J.H. Lartigue, 1912-1927 (1981)
- Andreas Feininger : experimental work (1978)
- Steichen : the master prints 1895-1914, the symbolist period (1978)

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