[Alt-photo] Mike Ware's updated e-book on the cyanotype process available for download

[Peter Friedrichsen]

Dear Alt -photo,

Recently I was conversing via email with Dr. Mike Ware re, the 
cyanotype process. He mention that he would be releasing an update to his book:
  Cyanotype: The History, Science and Art of Photographic Printing in 
Prussian Blue which is out of print but still viewable in parts 
through Google Books. With permission, I have copied his note 
containing the included link to the now freely downloadable updated version.

Peter Friedrichsen
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Greetings Friends,

The first monograph on Cyanotype was published by the Science Museum 
of London in 1999, but has long been totally out of print, and only 
accessible as a digitized part-version online at Google Books. My 
book was devoted to the study of photographic printing in Prussian 
blue, engaging with its history, aesthetics, practice, conservation 
and chemistry. Now, in response to kind requests, I have 
substantially restructured this text in a revised and extended 
edition that I intend to make freely available as a download from the 
World Wide Web as a 5.3 MB pdf:

<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47727259/Cyanomicon.pdf>https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47727259/Cyanomicon.pdf

For the time being, it will remain largely unillustrated. With its 
700+ references to the literature and the WWW, my hope is that it may 
occasionally serve as a useful resource for historians, curators and 
conservators of photographs, and for students of iron-based analogue 
imaging (siderotype) - should any of these good folk ever find 
themselves as castaways upon the strange blue shores of cyanotype. 
For those other shipwrecked mariners - photographic artists exploring 
cyanotype printmaking as an expressive medium - I have included full 
practical instruction in the modern process.

With all good wishes for 2014,

Mike
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