Focal Press Book: The Variable Contrast Printing Manual by Stephen G. Anchell

The Variable Contrast Printing Manual is the only comprehensive resource for photographers printing with variable contrast papers. Anchell provides a wealth of techniques and information to enable photographers to achieve the best possible results, and express their unique personal vision. As in his best-selling The Darkroom Cookbook (Focal Press), Anchell has provided the reader with an easy-to-follow approach to a medium that now dominates black-and-white printing.

Contents:

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. A Brief History of Variable Contrast Papers
4. Variable Contrast Papers
5. Calibrating Variable Contrast Papers
6. Printing with Variable Contrast Paper
7. Multiple-Filter Techniques
8. Split Printing
9. Enlargers and Light Sources
10. Fixing and Washing for Permanence
11. Toning
12. Appendixes--Recommended Dichroic Filtration Values for Common
13. Color Enlargers
14. Formulas
15. Suppliers and Manufacturers
16. Bibliography
17. Index
18. Contrast Comparison Charts
19. Exposure Factor Chart

Readership: Art photographers Advanced photography students. Only comprehensive how-to manual for printing on variable contrast papers. Timely and instructive; provides a wealth of proven techniques. Invaluable reference for art photographers.

About the Author: Stephen G. Anchell has been a freelance and commercial photographer, writer, and instructor for over 25 years. His fine-art black-and-white photography has been internationally exhibited and collected. He teaches workshops and seminars privately, at universities, and for companies such as Agfa, Cachet Fine Art Paper Company, and Sinar-Bron.

His writing on photography has appeared in View Camera, Shutterbug, PIC (Great Britain), and PhotoPro magazines. He was a contributing editor to the former Camera and Darkroom magazine, and is a current contributing editor to PhotoWork and Outdoor Photographer magazines.