New Dimensions in Photo Processes, 4th Edition

Chapter 4    Creating the Photo-Printmaking Studio

■  Equipment

■  The Light Box

■  The Contact Printing Frame

■  The Exposure Unit

■  Materials and Procedures

■  Materials

■  Supports

■  Sizing

■  Handling Thin Papers

EQUIPMENT

Many of the printmaking processes described in Part III, Light-Sensitive Methods, are accomplished without a photographic darkroom or film-developing area, although an artist may want access to a darkroom (see Chapter 5) or a computer and printer (see Chapter 6) for making large negatives. Cyanotype, Van Dyke brown, gum bichromate, casein pigment, palladium, and Kwik Print¹ emulsions are applied to paper or fabric in subdued daylight, dried, exposed to bright ultraviolet light under black-and-white contact-size transparencies, ...