[alt-photo] Re: books before 1977

[David Vickers]

When did 'alternative photography' come into being? At one point, many of the now alt processes were 'normal'. In my c1910 book 'Everyones Guide To Photography' it lists many of what we would now consider to be alt processes, but at the time, they were contemporary processes. However, even then it notes that the use of ferrous oxalate as a developer had gone out of fashion... does that make it an alt process for 1910-ish?


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--- On Wed, 24/3/10, Tomas Sobota <tom at sobota.net> wrote:


From: Tomas Sobota <tom at sobota.net>
Subject: [alt-photo] Re: books before 1977
To: "The alternative photographic processes mailing list" <alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org>
Date: Wednesday, 24 March, 2010, 10:07


Alberto,

A very small bibliography that I remember:

1. Gassan, Arnold "Handbook for Contemporary Photography". Athens, Ohio,
Handbook Co.,1974 (Platinum, photogravure and collotype)

2. "Nonsilver Printing Processes: Four Selections, 1886-1927". Peter Bunnel
ed. New York, Arno Press, 1973

Then there's the book by Kent Wade, but that was printed in 1978. Also,
around that time a number of articles were appearing in photographic
journals, like Petersen's. Are you interested in those also?

cheers
Tom Sobota
Madrid, Spain

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alberto Novo <alt.list at albertonovo.it>wrote:

> Were there any books on alt-techniques before "Breaking the Rules"
> published in 1977? I think so, but I have no reference. May you help me?
> Alberto
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