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Faculty member’s book on photo processes to be published in September
August 7, 2006
 
The fourth edition of SMFA faculty member Laura Blacklow’s New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Alternative Techniques is set to be released this September through Focal Press.

Published for the first time in full color throughout, the book also features a new horizontal design that allows for easy readability in the lab. New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Alternative Techniques offers clear instructions, step-by-step photos, and inspiring artwork while teaching how to mix chemicals and apply light-sensitive emulsions by hand, create imagery in and out of the darkroom, translocate Polaroid photos and magazine and newspaper pictures, alter black-and-white photographs, make digital negatives, and use alternative color (including cross-processing and painting with darkroom chemicals). In addition, this is the only book that has step-by-step instructions on the Bacquerel process of contemporary daguerreotypes.

The book also includes a chapter, “Making Negatives – Analogue Method; With a Darkroom; Without a Darkroom; Pinhole Negatives” by SMFA Text and Image Arts faculty member Jesseca Ferguson and Walter Crump.

Blacklow, whose manipulated photographic prints have been shown internationally, was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for works on paper, the St. Botolph Club's Morton C. Bradley Award in Color, Polaroid Corporation's Artist Support Program, and the Massachusetts Arists' Foundation Fellowship for her hand-colored, black-and-white photographs.

For more information and to purchase a copy of the book, visit Focal Press or Amazon.com.