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The Museum of Modern Art (of New
York).
Processing If you spend much time
working in the darkroom, especially
if you want to explore advanced techniques,
you'll probably want more
guidance than we've offered in the
Appendix. There are essentially three
kinds of books for this purpose:
general manuals, special technique
manuals and standard reference
books.
A good general manual will help
you select and use equipment, explain
both basic and advanced procedures
and offer helpful tips. Examples include
The Basic Darkroom Book by
Tom Grimm (Plum Books), Basic
Guide to B& W Darkroom Techniques
(part of the "Learn Photography
Series" published by HP Books) and
Beginner's Guide to Color Darkroom
Techniques by Ralph Hattersley
(Doubleday/Dolphin). A special
technique manual may cover anything
from high-contrast processing
to the production of museum-quality
prints. Examples include Darkroom
Magic by Otto Litzel (Amphoto) and,
for advanced Zone System work,
Ansel Adams' The Negative and The
Print (New York Graphic Society).
Darkroom reference books provide
very detailed information on films,
papers, chemicals and procedures.
Examples include The Photographic
Lab Handbook by John Carrol
(published by Amphoto) and such
Kodak publications as How to Process
Ektachrome Slides Using Process
E-6 and Kodak Black-and-White
Photographic Papers.
Special Techniques If you're interested
in some particular aspect of
photography, odds are that someone
has written a book about it. Few of
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the more specific titles, however, will
ever show up in your local bookstore,
or even in the library. If you want
more information than you can find
in the usual general interest books,
try looking in Books in Print, a standard
reference available for use in
both bookstores and libraries. Most
bookstores will be happy to place an
order for you, and may even be able
to convince a library to do so as well.
Examples of the kinds of books you
might find include John Shaw's
Closeups in Nature (Amphoto) and
Frame It: A Complete Do-It- Yourself
Guide to Picture Framing by Lista
Duren (Houghton Mifflin).
Time-Life Another editorial team.
The Time-Life Library of Photography
is an extensive (and expensive)
series of books whose titles include
Color, Photojournalism and The
Great Themes. They are all good
reference books, though you'll probably
want to check them out of your
local library, rather than buy them.
Vestal, David The author of
numerous instruction books stressing
black-and-white photography and
processing. His books (especially The
Craft of Photography) are excellent
resources for anyone wishing to
achieve a high level of technical skill.
Zone System The exposure control
technique of Ansel Adams and his
disciples. If you're interested in producing
exquisite prints of subjects
that will sit still for a long time (like
buildings and rocks), then the Zone
System is an essential tool. It has
been explained in numerous books by
numerous authors, including Adams
himself. Probably the best known
book on this subject is The New Zone
System Manual, by Minor White,
Richard Zakia and Peter Lorenz
(published by Morgan and Morgan).
Magazines
There are many magazines and other
periodicals devoted to photography,
from glossy, mass-market monthlies
to simple camera club newsletters.
The following list covers those that
are most commonly available. The
best way to make your selection is to
find a bookstore or drugstore with an
extensive magazine rack and browse.
American Photographer If you
consider advertising photography to
be as important as traditional landscapes
(as many contemporary photographers
do) then you'll probably
like American Photographer. If you
enjoy a slick and occasionally flippant
style, then you'll probably love
it. At the very least, American
Photographer is more enthusiastic
than most photography magazines.
In terms of content, it is primarily
devoted to discussing photographers
and showing their work, rather than
to explaining how their results were
achieved or what tools they used.
Aperture This is the classic
photography magazine: a very serious
publication, almost solely devoted to
presenting the work of art photographers.
It is elegantly designed and
beautifully printed. Every photographer
should own at least one issue.
Darkroom Photography For
anyone wishing to master the darkroom,
Darkroom Photography is an
important resource. It contains a
good mix of detailed "how-to"
guides, equipment reviews and collections
of inspirational photographs.