The Darkroom Cookbook

by Steve Anchell

Overview

The Darkroom Cookbook, 2nd Edition offers 170 photographic formulas, 20 of which are new to this edition. They cover film developing, paper developing, toners, stop baths, fixers, negative reductions, print reductions, negative intensifiers, paper intensifiers, and more. New information has been added on pyro developer, amidol developer, monobaths, pushing film, and low contrast development. Sections on safety and darkroom planning, as well as a listing of chemical suppliers, complete this book. The comb binding allows for easy darkroom use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317337607
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/22/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Steve Anchell is an internationally published writer, photographer, and teacher with his work featured in more than 61 exhibits. Since 1979, he has taught photography workshops since 1979 and classes for Oregon State University, Santa Fe Workshops, the International Center of Photography in NYC, Tuscano Photo Workshops, and many others. He is a member of the Freestyle Photographic Board of Advisors.

Steve has five books on photography published by Focal Press: The Darkroom Cookbook, The Film Developing Cookbook, Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera, The Variable Contrast Printing Manual, and Digital Photo Assignments. He is the former editor of Photovision: Art and Technique and Focus Fine Art Photography magazines and has written for and worked as a contributing editor for numerous photography magazines.

Table of Contents

List of Formulas
Equipment
Chemicals
Pharmacopeia
Development
Film Developent
Paper Development
Stop Baths and Fixers
Toning Prints
Negative Reduction
Print Reduction
Intensification of Negatives
Intensification of Prints
Push Processing Film
Development by Inspection Appendices -- Safety in Handling Photographic Chemicals
Chemical and Equipment Suppliers
Planning a Darkroom pH
Formulas
Bibliography
Conversion

Editorial Reviews

Offers techniques for film and paper development, and 206 photographic formulas. The second edition fills out the areas of warm-tone paper developers and toners, amidol film development, monobaths, and archival processing of films and papers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"This is the classic guide for analog photography enthusiasts interested in high-quality darkroom work... In addition to 'recipes' for darkroom experiments, this book contains invaluable information on developers, push-processing, reversal processing, enlarged negatives, pyro formulas, printing, and toning prints." — shutterhub.org.uk, August 2017

“For everyone working with traditional film and darkroom procedures—which I rely on exclusively

for all my black and white work...because it’s still the best—The Darkroom Cookbook is essential

for your library. No other book puts it all together as thoroughly and understandably as this book.”

Bruce Barnbaum, author of The Art of Photography

“For many decades, Steve Anchell has dedicated himself to solid no-nonsense research and

information gathering on the entire breadth of black and white film and paper processing. And he

is still at it. I consider this book essential for all darkroom work and keep a much used copy right in

my darkroom. This book now stands alone for information of this kind.”

Gordon Hutchings, photographer and author of The Book of Pyro

“Steve Anchell has done a fantastic job of creating THE essential reference for everyone who uses

film or prints in a darkroom. The Darkroom Cookbook contains the best and most useful of film

photography’s formulas, plus an immense amount of information on how to use them correctly.”

John Wimberley, photographer

From the Publisher