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.
