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About the Book

The fifth edition of this comprehensive guide to darkroom photography is fully revised and updated, placing analog and traditional methods into the context of a digital world and contemporary workflows. Including invaluable analog photography techniques, chemicals, and equipment, supported by visual examples. The DCB5 has 180 updated recipes for darkroom experiments, and tips for mastering the darkroom. It includes the chemicals used to develop, stop, fix, tone, and archivally process films and prints. DCB5 contains invaluable information on making enlarged digital negatives, planning a darkroom, and safely handling photographic chemicals. It features new sections on split-printing, solarization, and making your own gelatin emulsion. The fifth edition includes contributions and stunning black-and-white imagery by established artists such as Bruce Barnbaum, Tim Rudman, Christina Z. Anderson, John Sexton, and more. This is the essential guide for any practitioner who wants to take the next step to develop a thorough understanding of film and darkroom processes, techniques, and working methodologies, as well as graduate and advanced photography students with an interest in analog and darkroom processes.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Planning a Darkroom; Chapter 2: Equipment; Chapter 3: Film; Chapter 4: Film Developers; Chapter 5: Types of Film Developers; Chapter 6: Film Development; Chapter 7: Pyrogallol and Pyrocatechin; Chapter 8: Print Developers; Chapter 9: Paper; Chapter 10: Printing Methods and Techniques; Chapter 11: Printing Techniques of Master Printers; Chapter 12: Stop Baths and Fixers; Chapter 13: Toning Prints; Chapter 14: Reduction and Intensification; Chapter 15: Enlarged Digital Negatives; Chapter 16: Printing Out Processes; Chapter 17: Print Solarization; Chapter 18: Making a Simple Silver Bromide Gelatin Emulsion

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.

Review :
"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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781040123966
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1040123961
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2025
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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