A basic guide to Alternative Photographic Processes. What is needed to create a photograph using an alternative photography process.

1. The Basics of
Alternative
Photographic
Processes

2. What are Alternative
Photographic Processes?
Photographic processes that are not in massive use, such as digital
photography, iPhoneography, etc.
Historical photographic processes ,contemporary variations of
historic processes and new inventive (DIY) processes are
considered to be alternative photographic processes ,

3. Examples of historic
photographic processes
Heliography
Physautotype
Photogenic Drawing (Photograms)
Daguerreotype
Albumen & Salt Prints
Cyanotype
Wet Plate Collodion (Ambrotypes & Tintypes)
Crystoleum / American Ivorytype / Chrysotype / Ivorytype /
Opalotype
Kallitype & Van Dyke Brown
Stereo photography

4. Examples of contemporary
photographic processes
35mm Ambrotype
3D Anaglyph Photography & Lenticular Analog Print
Acrylic gel lift and transfer
Becquerel Daguerreotype
Caffenol Photography
Cross Processing
Liquid Light Emulsion
Lith Print
Pinhole Photography
X-Ray (Radiology) Art Photography

5. What Do You Need?
Light sensitive agent
Bearer
Binding agent
A dark space
Light
Developer
Fixer
Preservation means

6. Light Sensitive Agent
Silver & Salt
Plants & Fruits
Iodine
Bitumen
Potassium ferricyanide
Ammonium persulfate
Red mercuric oxide
Digital sensor
Polymer
Etc.

7. Bearer
Silver, copper, zinc,
or a tin plate
Glass
Paper
Film
Digital sensor
Opaline glass
Ceramic
Textile
Etc.

8. Binding Agent
Albumen
Collodion
Gelatin
Arabic gum
Resin
Etc.

9. A Dark Space
Camera
Box
Room
Container
Hole
Mouth
Etc.

10. Light
Sun
UV lamps
Incandescent lamp
Reflector
Candle
Etc.

11. Developer
Turpentine
Mercury
Red filter
Gallic acid
Caffenol
Pyrogallic acid
Photoshop
Non
Etc.

12. Fixer
Hypo
Plain water
Salt water
Wrapping
“Save As”
Etc.

13. Preserving
Light exposure
Humidity
Temperature
Hardware
Software
Digital
communication

14. Photography Pioneers
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
William Henry Fox Talbot
Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Hippolyte Bayard
Frederick Scott Archer
Lumière brothers
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
Sir John Herschel
Anna Atkins
Steven Sasson
The process; not the results is what matters…

15. Books
The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, by Christopher James
Primitive Photography: A Guide to Making Cameras, Lenses, and Calotypes by Alan Greene
The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall
A Guide to Early Photographic Processes by Brian Coe and Mark Haworth-Booth
Photographs of the Past, Process and Preservation by Bertrand Lavédrine
Photo-Imaging: A Complete Visual Guide to Alternative Techniques and Processes by Jill
Enfield
Photography Beyond Technique by Tom Persinger
From pinhole to print by Malin Fabbri, Gary Fabbri and Peter Wiklund
Coming Into Focus: A Step-by-Step Guide to Alternative Photographic Printing Processes by
John Barnie
Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative
Process Printing
by Brad Hinkel and Ron Reeder
Handbook of Non-Toxic Intaglio by Henrik Bøegh

16. Links
www.alternativephotography.com
http://dutchalternativephotography.blogspot.com
www.apug.org
www.f295.org
www.niepce.com
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lacock/things-to-see-and-do/fox-talbot-museum
www.eastmanhouse.org
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