Main entry:

Crawford, William, 1948-

Title & Author:

The keepers of light : a history & working guide to early photographic processes / William Crawford.

Publication:

Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Morgan & Morgan, ©1979.

Description:

318 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-310) and index.
Photographic syntax -- The first processes -- Artistic preferences -- The syntax takes shape -- Syntactical corrections: combination printing -- The beginnings of modern printing papers -- Nonsilver processes -- Naturalistic photography -- Pictorialism -- Stieglitz and the photo-secession -- Three printmakers -- Final words -- Technical introduction -- Materials and Techniques: Negatives and printing papers ; Chemicals ; Papers ; Sensitizing and printing -- Silver Processes: Salted Paper ; Ambrotype -- Ferric processes: Cyanotope ; Platinum and palladium ; Kallitype -- Dichromate processes: Carbon, carbro, and three-color carbro ; Gum printing ; Oil and bromoil -- Color technique: three color printing -- Photomechanical Techniques: The early history of photomechanical printing ; Photogravure ; Collotype ; Other photomechanical processes ; Woodburytype -- Conservation and restoration.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0871001586
9780871001580

Subject:

Photography Printing processes.
Photography Printing processes History.
Photography History.
Photographie Procédés d'impression.
Photographie Histoire.
Photographie Procédés d'impression Histoire.
Fotografie.
Wetenschappelijke technieken.

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320322
Call No.: 320322
Status: Available