Silverprint Ltd, Books

Adventures with Pinhole & Home-Made Cameras John Evans Offering an alternative resource to Eric Renners book, this is not purely a pinhole book, but includes other areas where home-constructed cameras have been made to produce different and exceptional images. The book is divided into two sections, the first, 'Case Histories' comprising the work of 16 photographers who have little in common apart from the bizarre length to which they have pushed the photographic envelope. Part 2 gets down to practicalities, with details on image formation, capture, and plans and details for constructing cameras. 2003 Rotovision, Softback, 144 pages Order Code: 47 011 Price: £19.99

Adventures with Pinhole & Home-Made Cameras

John Evans

Offering an alternative resource to Eric Renners book, this is not purely a pinhole book, but includes other areas where home-constructed cameras have been made to produce different and exceptional images. The book is divided into two sections, the first, 'Case Histories' comprising the work of 16 photographers who have little in common apart from the bizarre length to which they have pushed the photographic envelope.
Part 2 gets down to practicalities, with details on image formation, capture, and plans and details for constructing cameras.

2003 Rotovision, Softback, 144 pages

Order Code: 47 011

Price: £19.99

Pinhole Photography Eric Renner New edition. Both an entertaining history and a practical handbook for this unique photographic technique. More than 170 photographs and illustrations show the many types of pinhole camera, and examples of images that can be made from them. 1995 Focal Press, Softback, 174 pages Order Code: 18 918 Price: £28.99

Pinhole Photography

Eric Renner

New edition. Both an entertaining history and a practical handbook for this unique photographic technique. More than 170 photographs and illustrations show the many types of pinhole camera, and examples of images that can be
made from them.

1995 Focal Press, Softback, 174 pages

Order Code: 18 918

Price: £28.99

Primitive Photography Alan Greene * out of print * Primitive photography explores the hand-made photographic process in its entirety, showing the reader how to make film holders, 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. Reliable calotype procedures from the 1840's-50's are demonstrated, featuring streamlined paper negative processes and convenient developing-out salt-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 to digital photography, Primitive Photography provides the ability to create the entire photographic process from the ground up. Each chapter can be read separately in order to focus upon a particular area of interest, such as building a camera, constructing lenses, making paper negatives, or salt printing. 2002, Focal Press, 224 pp Order Code: 47 119 Price: £22.50

Primitive Photography

Alan Greene *** out of print ***

Primitive photography explores the hand-made photographic process in its entirety, showing the reader how to make film holders, 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. Reliable calotype procedures from the 1840's-50's are demonstrated, featuring streamlined paper negative processes and convenient developing-out salt-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 to digital photography, Primitive Photography provides the ability to create the entire photographic process from the ground up. Each chapter can be read separately in order to focus upon a particular area of interest, such as building a camera, constructing lenses, making paper negatives, or salt printing.

2002, Focal Press, 224 pp

Order Code: 47 119

Price: £22.50

Photographic Possibilities * out of print * Robert Hirsch & John Valentino With a robust collection of images and artists contributions accompanying step-by-step procedures, this text is aimed to inspire and and instruct photographers who want to better achieve their aesthetic goals and raise their technical expertise. In addition to covering a diverse range of historical and progressive photographic techniques, such as Polaroid transfers, photo weaving, cyanotype printing, and platinum/palladium processes, this is a practical guide exploring a variety of chemistry formulas, special cameras, films, conventional and non-conventional light sensitive material, equipment and software. This expanded and extensively revised edition unites analogue and digital methods and thinking. It features new materials on digital imaging, how to use the web as a medium and exhibition space, and a list of suppliers and Internet resources. Showcasing 130 of the USA's top contemporary photographers, the text includes work by Cindy Sherman, Jerry Uelsman, Patrick Nagatani, Mike & Doug Starn, Osamu James Nakagawa, and John Pfahl as well as other major and emerging talents. Encouraging photographers to take visual risks and follow their instinctive curiousity, the book is an accessible guide to unique processes and an excellent resource for exploring the medium's abundant possibilities. 2001 Focal Press, Softback, 259 pages Order Code: 75 496 Price: £25.99

Photographic Possibilities *** out of print ***

Robert Hirsch & John Valentino

With a robust collection of images and artists contributions accompanying step-by-step procedures, this text is aimed to inspire and and instruct photographers who want to better achieve their aesthetic goals and raise their technical expertise.
In addition to covering a diverse range of historical and progressive photographic techniques, such as Polaroid transfers, photo weaving, cyanotype printing, and platinum/palladium processes, this is a practical guide exploring a variety of chemistry formulas, special cameras, films, conventional and non-conventional light sensitive material, equipment and software.

This expanded and extensively revised edition unites analogue and digital methods and thinking. It features new materials on digital imaging, how to use the web as a medium and exhibition space, and a list of suppliers and Internet resources. Showcasing 130 of the USA's top contemporary photographers, the text includes work by Cindy Sherman, Jerry Uelsman, Patrick Nagatani, Mike & Doug Starn, Osamu James Nakagawa, and John Pfahl as well as other major and emerging talents. Encouraging photographers to take visual risks and follow their instinctive curiousity, the book is an accessible guide to unique processes and an excellent resource for exploring the medium's abundant possibilities.

2001 Focal Press, Softback, 259 pages

Order Code: 75 496

Price: £25.99

New Dimensions In Photo Imaging A step by step manual. Laura Blacklow An extensive guide to non-silver imaging techniques. Including historical information, health and safety tips and detailed descriptions of materials and methods needed to make solvent transfers, cyanotypes, Van Dyke prints, gum bichromates, and platinum and palladium prints, as well as others. 1995, Focal Press, Spiral softback, 164 pp

Infra-Red Photography - a complete workshop guide Hugh Milsom Exhaustive recent book up to the high standards of this Fountain Press series, particularly strong on examples of IR images. Comprising: introduction, mono IR film characteristics, IR film technicalities, image visualisation, 'on location' concerns, and the final print. Infra-red false colour film is included as a separate chapter, and there are 7 portfolios from photographers who specialise in IR work. These include Simon Marsden, who was in at the beginning of the movement, and Stuart Black, who produces unique aerial images from space by combining different channels of reflectance data collected by the US Landsat satellite. 2001 Fountain Press, Softback 176 pages Order Code: 43 636 Price: £24.95

Infra-Red Photography - a complete workshop guide

Hugh Milsom

Exhaustive recent book up to the high standards of this Fountain Press series, particularly strong on examples of IR images. Comprising: introduction, mono IR film characteristics, IR film technicalities, image visualisation, 'on location' concerns, and the final print. Infra-red false colour film is included as a separate chapter, and there are 7 portfolios from photographers who specialise in IR work. These include Simon Marsden, who was in at the beginning of the movement, and Stuart Black, who produces unique aerial images from space by combining different channels of reflectance data collected by the US Landsat satellite.

2001 Fountain Press, Softback 176 pages

Order Code: 43 636

Price: £24.95

Darkroom Dynamics A Guide to Creative Darkroom Techniques Jim Stone * out of print * An enduring book, never out of print. A useful guide to how to carry out a wide range of experimental photographic processes. Sixteen chapters, each written by an expert in a particular technique, provide illus-trated guides to a wide range of different methods. These include high-contrast, Sabattier, infra-red film and photograms. 1985 Focal Press, Softback, 199 pages. Order Code: 3 409 Price: £31.99

Darkroom Dynamics
A Guide to Creative Darkroom Techniques

Jim Stone *** out of print ***

An enduring book, never out of print. A useful guide to how to carry out a wide range of experimental photographic processes. Sixteen chapters, each written by an expert in a particular technique, provide illus-trated guides to a wide range of different methods. These include high-contrast, Sabattier, infra-red film and photograms.

1985 Focal Press, Softback, 199 pages.

Order Code: 3 409

Price: £31.99

Toning & Handcolouring Photographs Tony Worobiec Tony Worobiecs own methods and images, less exhaustive perhaps than Tim Rudman's toning book, but still forming a very useful resource. Split into 3 sections, Toning, Dual Toning, and Hand-Colouring. Profusely illustrated using full colour throughout. 2002, Collins & Brown, 128 pp Order Code: 45 147 Price: £17.99

Polaroid Transfers * out of print * Kathleen Thormod Carr Polaroid transfer exists in a grey area between conventional photography and alternative process. Somewhat sidelined by digital techniques, for a few years polaroid lifts and transfers were regarded as cutting edge alternative process stuff, and still offer fascinating imaging possibilities, especially when every image is a 'one-off'. The book breaks down into 4 areas, firstly 'Creating Polaroid Image & Emulsion Transfers' which deals with selecting the basic equipment & supplies, and the essential techniques. Part 2, 'Further Explorations offers more information for people who want to move onto more advanced work, including details on working with enlargers and cameras. A gallery of 20 photographers work comprises part 3, and finally the resources section includes information on the photographers, manufacturers, workshops and further publications. Written from the USA photographers point of view. 1997, Amphoto, 160pp Order Code: 29 311 Price: £26.99

Polaroid Transfers *** out of print ***

Kathleen Thormod Carr

Polaroid transfer exists in a grey area between conventional photography and alternative process. Somewhat sidelined by digital techniques, for a few years polaroid lifts and transfers were regarded as cutting edge alternative process stuff, and still offer fascinating imaging possibilities, especially when every image is a 'one-off'.
The book breaks down into 4 areas, firstly 'Creating Polaroid Image & Emulsion Transfers' which deals with selecting the basic equipment & supplies, and the essential techniques. Part 2, 'Further Explorations offers more information for people who want to move onto more advanced work, including details on working with enlargers and cameras. A gallery of 20 photographers work comprises part 3, and finally the resources section includes information on the photographers, manufacturers, workshops and further publications.
Written from the USA photographers point of view.

1997, Amphoto, 160pp

Order Code: 29 311

Price: £26.99

Polaroid Manipulations * out of print * Kathleen Thormod Carr Picks up where her above book, Polaroid Transfers leaves off, offering additional advice and new techniques for creating Polaroid image and emulsion transfers. Chapters on printing, presenting and marketing artwork; a gallery of SX70 manipulations from 20 photographers; and a resource section complete with supplier and artist listings round out the volume. 1997, Amphoto, 208pp Order Code: 46 900 Price: £24.99

Polaroid Manipulations *** out of print ***

Kathleen Thormod Carr

Picks up where her above book, Polaroid Transfers leaves off, offering additional advice and new techniques for creating Polaroid image and emulsion transfers. Chapters on printing, presenting and marketing artwork; a gallery of SX70 manipulations from 20 photographers; and a resource section complete with supplier and artist listings round out the volume.

1997, Amphoto, 208pp

Order Code: 46 900

Price: £24.99

Watercolour Portrait Photography the Art of Polaroid SX70 Manipulation Helen T. Boursier * out of print * Written about 25 years too late, long after the original rush of SX70 manipulation, after the original malleable SX70 material had been replaced, and after digital manipulation had come on the scene. Still, maybe there is a place for it yet, even though the visual impression after looking through the book cover to cover leaves one with the feeling of waking up after a heavy night. 2000, Amherst Media, 110 pp Order Code: 43 648 Price: £10.00

Watercolour Portrait Photography
the Art of Polaroid SX70 Manipulation

Helen T. Boursier
*** out of print ***

Written about 25 years too late, long after the original rush of SX70 manipulation, after the original malleable SX70 material had been replaced, and after digital manipulation had come on the scene. Still, maybe there is a place for it yet, even though the visual impression after looking through the book cover to cover leaves one with the feeling of waking up after a heavy night.

2000, Amherst Media, 110 pp

Order Code: 43 648

Price: £10.00

The Art of Handpainting Photographs Cheryl Machat Dorskind More expensive than the alternative book below, but a more rounded production. Chapters include; Materials & the work station; Basic colour theory; Preparing the photograph for colour application; The basic painting process; Portraiture; Environmental issues; Presenting artwork; Resources. 1998, Amphoto, 144 pp Order Code: 44 978 Price: £18.99

The Art of Handpainting Photographs

Cheryl Machat Dorskind

More expensive than the alternative book below, but a more rounded production. Chapters include; Materials & the work station; Basic colour theory; Preparing the photograph for colour application; The basic painting process; Portraiture; Environmental issues; Presenting artwork; Resources.

1998, Amphoto, 144 pp

Order Code: 44 978

Price: £18.99

Handcoloring Photographs Sandra Laird & Carey Chambers Perhaps a bit less relevent in the digital age, this is still a very thorough round-up of the materials and techniques of hand-colouring, and starts right from the origins, taking its cue from the hand-colouring of daguerrotypes. Chapters include: Toners & Dyes: Oil Paints & Pastels: Watercolours: Coloured Pencils: Other Media, includoing dyes, markers, acrylics, goache: Mixing the Media: Handcolouring Tips: Colour Theory: and Presenting your Artwork. Appendices are Colouring Media Guide, Glossary, and list of Manufacturers and Suppliers, although as with most USA books the rest of the world is assumed not to exist. 1997, Amherst Media, 110 pp Order Code: 45 162 Price: £10.00

Handcoloring Photographs

Sandra Laird & Carey Chambers

Perhaps a bit less relevent in the digital age, this is still a very thorough round-up of the materials and techniques of hand-colouring, and starts right from the origins, taking its cue from the hand-colouring of daguerrotypes.
Chapters include: Toners & Dyes: Oil Paints & Pastels: Watercolours: Coloured Pencils: Other Media, includoing dyes, markers, acrylics, goache: Mixing the Media: Handcolouring Tips: Colour Theory: and Presenting your Artwork. Appendices are Colouring Media Guide, Glossary, and list of Manufacturers and Suppliers, although as with most USA books the rest of the world is assumed not to exist.

1997, Amherst Media, 110 pp

Order Code: 45 162

Price: £10.00

Holography for Photographers John Iovine Holography for most people, apart from what they see embossed on a credit card, disappeared sometime in the '80's. It was going to be the hot art form of the future - why, it even had its own department at the Royal College of Art! While an introductory book has to be applauded, it has drawbacks - poor photography, looking like blowups of low resolution digital snaps, monochrome throughout, no suggestion of final imagery examples, and total bias to US supplies. 1997, Focal Press, 153 pp Order Code: 129 Price: £19.99

Holography for Photographers

John Iovine

Holography for most people, apart from what they see embossed on a credit card, disappeared sometime in the '80's. It was going to be the hot art form of the future - why, it even had its own department at the Royal College of Art! While an introductory book has to be applauded, it has drawbacks - poor photography, looking like blowups of low resolution digital snaps, monochrome throughout, no suggestion of final imagery examples, and total bias to US supplies.

1997, Focal Press, 153 pp

Order Code: 129

Price: £19.99