Primitive photography
Subtitle: a guide to making cameras, lenses, and calotypes
By: Alan Greene.
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Photography -- Equipment and supplies -- Design and construction
Description: "Primitive Photography considers the hand-made photographic process in its entirety, showing the reader how to make box-cameras, lenses, paper negatives and salt prints, using inexpensive tools and materials found in most hardware and art-supply stores. Step-by-step procedures are presented alongside theoretical explanations and historical background. Streamlined calotype procedures are demonstrated, featuring different paper negative processes and overlooked, developing-out printing methods. Primitive Photography combines the simplicity of pinhole photography, the handmade quality of alternative processes, and the precision of large-format. For those seeking alternatives to commercially prepared material as well as digital photography, it provides the instructions for creating the entire photographic process from the ground up. Given its scope and treatment of the photographic process as a whole, this may be the first book of its kind to appear in over a century." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.