{"title":"Books by Christina Anderson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780367862299","title":"Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigital Negatives with QuadToneRIP\u003c\/em\u003e is a text that fully explores how the QuadToneRIP printer driver can be used to make expert digital negatives. The book takes a comprehensive, Òunder-the-hoodÓ look at how Roy Harrington’s QTR printer driver can be adapted for use by artists in several different creative practice areas. The text is written from the Mac\/Photoshop point of view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into three parts. Part One is a step-by-step how-to section that will appeal to both beginning and more advanced practitioners. Part One includes quickstart guides­ or summary sheets for beginning students who want to jump into using QTR before understanding all of its functional components. Part Two addresses dimroom, darkroom, and printmaking practices, walking the reader through brief workflows from negative to print for lithium palladium, gum bichromate, cyanotype, salted paper, kallitype, silver gelatin and polymer photogravure, with a sample profile for each. It also includes an introduction to a new software iteration of QTR: QuickCurve-DN (QCDN). Part Three is devoted to contemporary practitioners who explain how they use QTR in their creative practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA list of supplies and software needed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA summary QTR glossary with a simple explanation of how each function works \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA sample walk-through to create a QTR profile from start to finish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to linearize profiles with simple to more exacting tools\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA visual guide to modifying functions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuickstart guides for many of the workflows \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstructions for crafting monochrome, duotone, tricolor, and quadcolor negatives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstructions for using QTR to print silver gelatin in the darkroom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstructions for using QTR to print alternative processes in the dimroom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstructions for using QTR to print polymer photogravure in the printmaking room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory chapter to QuickCurve-DN software\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTroubleshooting common QTR problems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeneric starter profiles for processes discussed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContemporary artists: their work and QTR process.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearning how to craft expert digital negatives can be a bit overwhelming at the outset. \u003ci\u003eDigital Negatives with QuadToneRIP\u003c\/i\u003e makes the process as user-friendly as possible. Like other books in the series, \u003ci\u003eDigital Negatives with QuadToneRIP\u003c\/i\u003e is thoroughly comprehensive, accessible to different levels of learner, and illustrative of the contemporary arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289367622005,"sku":"9780367862299","price":57.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780367862299_89707222-96fc-4ae0-b139-99262271833f.jpg?v=1786013595"},{"product_id":"9781032131863","title":"The Experimental Darkroom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Experimental Darkroom\u003c\/em\u003e is a book focused on traditional black \u0026amp; white photographic materials—darkroom chemistry and silver gelatin paper—now used in many non-traditional ways. The book starts with a comprehensive digital negatives chapter. Topics are divided into five sections: cameraless experimentation, camera experimentation, printing experimentation, finished print experimentation, and a section highlighting contemporary photographers who use these approaches today. Each process under discussion is accompanied by photographic examples and a step-by-step method written in a “Just the facts, ma’am” style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopics included are:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotograms and clichés verre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLumen prints\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChemigrams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePinhole and zoneplate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHolgas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChromo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiquid emulsion and modern tintype\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLith printing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSabattier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMordançage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBleaching and bleachout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToning, traditional to experimental\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApplied color and abrasion tone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEncaustic, photomontage, and collage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBromoil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Experimental Darkroom\u003c\/em\u003e encourages taking risks and having fun. Over 400 images and 71 artists are included in its 276 pages. The outcome will be an expansion of creative options for the silver gelatin print. The options are engaging and now more accessible with digital negatives. Images are no longer solely captured in camera or on analog film. The darkroom is no longer always dark. The print is no longer a pristine and accurate rendition of what the camera sees. Photographers are pushing the boundaries of black \u0026amp; white photographic practice. It is an exciting time to get into the darkroom and play!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295670350197,"sku":"9781032131863","price":55.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032131863_7e88475e-fd31-4ce0-9ceb-3043f8ab7071.jpg?v=1786017398"},{"product_id":"9781138338838","title":"Cyanotype","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice\u003c\/em\u003e is a two part book on the much admired blue print process. Part One is a comprehensive how-to on the cyanotype process for both beginner and advanced practitioners, with lots of photographs and clear, step-by-step directions and formulas. Part Two highlights contemporary artists who are using cyanotype, making work that ranges from the photographic to the abstract, from the traditional to the conceptual, with tips on their personal cyanotype methods alongside their work. These artists illustrate cyanotype’s widespread use in contemporary photography today, probably the most of any alternative process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook features include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA brief discussion of the practice of the process with some key historical points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to set up the cyanotype ÒdimroomÓ\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe most extensive discussion of suitable papers to date, with data from 100+ papers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStep-by-step digital negative methods for monochrome and duotone negatives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapters on classic, new, and other cyanotype formulas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToning to create colors from yellow to brown to violet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinting cyanotype over palladium, for those who want to temper cyanotype’s blue nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinting cyanotype on alternate surfaces such as fabric, glass, and wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore creative practice ideas for cyanotype such as handcoloring and gold leafing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTroubleshooting cyanotype, photographically illustrated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinishing, framing, and storing cyanotype\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContemporary artists’ advice, techniques, and works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyanotype\u003c\/p\u003e is backed with research from 120 books, journals, and magazine articles from 1843 to the present day. It is richly illustrated with 400 photographs from close to 80 artists from 14 countries. It is a guide for the practitioner, from novice to expert, providing inspiration and proof of cyanotype’s original and increasing place in historical and contemporary photography.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296440136053,"sku":"9781138338838","price":57.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781138338838_2e36a5c0-7647-46bd-ab95-c64317a6eb93.jpg?v=1786018546"},{"product_id":"9781138280229","title":"Salted Paper Printing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists\u003c\/em\u003e makes one of the oldest known photographic processes easy for the 21st century using simple digital negative methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristina Z. Anderson’s in-depth discussion begins with a history of salted paper printing, then covers the salted paper process from beginner to intermediate level, with step-by-step instructions and an illustrated troubleshooting guide. Including cameraless imagery, hand-coloring, salt in combination with gum, and printing on fabric, \u003cem\u003eSalted Paper Printing\u003c\/em\u003e contextualizes the practice within the varied alternative processes. Anderson offers richly-illustrated profiles of contemporary artists making salted paper prints, discussing their creative process and methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalted Paper Printing\u003c\/em\u003e is perfect for the seasoned photographer looking to dip their toe into alternative processes, or for the photography student eager to engage with photography’s rich history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312159764853,"sku":"9781138280229","price":60.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781138280229_7495df92-9dfb-4c76-add9-cd3aa4dd64d7.jpg?v=1786018437"},{"product_id":"platinum-palladium-printing","title":"Platinum-Palladium Printing","description":"Platinum-Palladium Printing is a comprehensive guide to mastering the traditional platinum-palladium develop-out (DOP) process, offering both practical techniques and insights into contemporary applications of this noble metal printing method.   The first part of this book provides an extensive how-to section. It covers everything from setting up an alternative ‘dimroom’ and selecting supplies to troubleshooting common issues. Readers will learn about paper types like washi, combination printing techniques, as well as step-by-step processes for mixing chemistry, creating digital negatives, and producing archival-quality prints. The guide also details methods for using both traditional (potassium chlorate) and modern (Na2) contrast agents, introduces a non-toxic archival clearing method, and provides best practices for finishing, framing, and storing prints. The second part highlights contemporary artists who graciously share both their techniques and their works, showcasing innovative approaches that highlight the versatility and beauty of this process.   Platinum-Palladium Printing is ideal for photographers, printmakers, and artists interested in alternative photographic processes, as well as educators and students seeking a thorough resource on this timeless technique. Whether you are a beginner exploring the basics or an experienced practitioner refining your craft, this book offers valuable insights and inspiration.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57502310203765,"sku":"9781041253105","price":55.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781041253105.jpg?v=1786781134"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-christina-anderson.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}