Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes

Jill Enfield, 2013, 1st Edition
As technology advances in the world of photography, a passionate crowd of professionals, students, and hobbyists is returning to the darkroom in search of a more authentic, handmade feel to their art. Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes shows how to do just that. Packed with stunning imagery, how-to recipes, techniques, and historical information on the evolution of processes

Canon Lens Work (No longer available for download)

While Canon lens specific, Lens Work is an excellent reference to camera lenses in general. The illustrative examples and photographic techniques for the full range of lens focal lengths make this series the go-to reference for determining and using the best lenses for your particular photographic vision.

POST EXPOSURE - Advanced Techniques for the Photographic Printer


Ctein, 2011, 2nd Edition
Ctein has over 30 years of experience in this field and not only is he one of the few remaining dye-transfer printers but is also regarded, by Kodak no less, as one of the best printers. Step-by-step, detail by intricate detail, Ctein takes us from the very beginning of the photographic process, to the most advanced and sophisticated techniques as no other author ever has. This book provides detailed procedures taking the image from exposure to the making of the fine print in both black and white and color.

Photographic Possibilities

Robert Hirsch & John Valentino, 2001, 2nd Edition
Robert Hirsch, 2009, 3rd Edition

Photographic Possibilities provides a reliable source of techniques and ideas for the use of alternative and contemporary photographic processes that photographers have come to depend on. Professional photographers and advanced students seeking to increase their skills will discover modern and classic methods of creating and manipulating images. This practical guide integrates technical methods with the aesthetic outcome.

How to Make Good Pictures - Kodak

Eastman Kodak, 1922, 12th Edition
"How To MAKE GOOD PICTURES," the title of this book, explains its mission. We can only add that in it all photographic processes have been reduced to the simplest form consistent with good results complex theories or untried experiments have not been introduced. We have given prominence to the Kodak system of picture making because time has demonstrated its supremacy for the producing of good results in the simplest way.

The Photographic Researches of Ferdinand Hurter & Vero C. Driffield

Edited by W. B. Ferguson, 1920
A Memorial Volume containing an account of The Photographic Researches of Ferdinand Hurter & Vero C. Driffield. Being a Reprint of their Published Papers, together with a History of their Early Work and a Bibliography of Later Work on the same subject.

Modern Methods of Carbon Printing, 1905

A. M. Martin, 1905, 2nd Edition
The great advantages and supremacy of the modern carbon process in its present state of perfection, is now universally recognized by the profession, the world over. In the following pages, I will try and give the result of many years of practical experience ; and that of other workers whom I have come in contact with during my long career as a professional carbon printer.

Instruction on Photography

Sir William DE W. Abney, 1900, 10th Edition
A few remarks are necessary, by way of explanation of some of the changes that have been made in this edition. The gelatine process having so firmly got possession of the photo- graphic public, it has been awarded the place of honour in the description of negative-making processes, relegating the description of the wet process to a more subsidiary position. Certain omissions in some almost obsolete processes have become necessary to keep the pages within reasonable limits, and to make room for various new chapters.

Naturalistic Photography

Dr. P. H. Emerson, 1899, 3rd Edition
The withdrawal of the second edition of this book, some years ago, is too well known to dwell upon. The reasons for the retraction have been fully given in a paper read before the Photographic Society of Great Britain and herein reprinted; and in the same paper it is clearly stated what portions of the original work were discarded and what retained. Those portions retained and expanded form this third edition now published for the first time in New York — they having been previously run through the pages of the Photographic Times.

Pictorial Effect in Photography

H. P. Robinson, 1892, 3rd Edition
Mr. Robinson's first, and, in the opinion of many, his best, book on photographic art, has long been a standard work in this country. With these brief prefatory remarks, we issue this new American edition of Pictorial Effect in Photography, containing all the original illustrations, for the benefit of the photographic fraternity in this country, confident that it will meet with a wide and appreciative reception.

The First Principles of Photography

Clement J. Leaper, 1892, 1st Edition
In the following pages, I have embodied the substance of the course of lectures on photography annually delivered by me since 1882, first at the Dublin Mechanics' Institute and latterly at the City of Dublin Technical Schools. In my treatment of the subject, I have in the main followed the admirable syllabus of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and to students preparing for the Institute's Examinations in Photography I believe this work will be of special service.

A Treatise on Photography

W. de Wiveleslie Abney, F.R.S., 1885, 3rd Edition
The aim of this book is chiefly to give a rational explanation of some of the different phenomena to be met with in Photography ; and with this to give sufficient practical instruction to enable the student to produce a landscape picture which shall be technically good, and at the same time to be of use to him if he make photography an aid to research. In regard to the theories which the author has enunciated, it is believed that experimental evidence completely justifies their adoption.

Emulsion Processes in Photography

Captain W. DE W. Abney, 1878, 1st Edition
It has been the endeavour of the Author to collect, in the form of a "handy-book," those Photographic Emulsion Processes which have been received with most favour by experienced workers, and with which he is practically acquainted himself; and, at the same time, to give theoretical explanations of some of the phenomena which are met with in these particular processes.

British Journal of Photography

Founded in 1854 to record the scientific development of a fledgling medium, these days BJP takes an international perspective on contemporary photography, focusing on fine art and documentary, and the cutting edge of editorial and commercial practices. Each monthly edition (in print and iPad) focuses on a theme, including regular subjects such as Portrait, Education, Journeys and Community.