The Darkroom Cookbook

By: Steve Anchell

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Hardcover | 29 April 2025 | Edition Number 5

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442 Pages

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The fifth edition of this comprehensive guide to darkroom photography is fully revised and updated, placing analog and traditional methods into the context of a digital world and contemporary workflows.

Including invaluable analog photography techniques, chemicals, and equipment, supported by visual examples. The DCB5 has 180 updated recipes for darkroom experiments, and tips for mastering the darkroom. It includes the chemicals used to develop, stop, fix, tone, and archivally process films and prints. DCB5 contains invaluable information on making enlarged digital negatives, planning a darkroom, and safety handling photographic chemicals. It features new sections on split-printing, solarization, and making your own gelatin emulsion. The fifth edition includes contributions and stunning black and white imagery by established artists such as Bruce Barnbaum, Tim Rudman, Christina Z. Anderson, John Sexton, and more.

This is the essential guide for any practitioner who wants to take the next step to develop a thorough understanding of film and darkroom processes, techniques, and working methodologies, as well as graduate and advanced photography students with an interest in analog and darkroom processes.

Industry Reviews

"This is the classic guide for analog photography enthusiasts interested in high-quality darkroom work... In addition to 'recipes' for darkroom experiments, this book contains invaluable information on developers, push-processing, reversal processing, enlarged negatives, pyro formulas, printing, and toning prints." -- shutterhub.org.uk, August 2017

"For everyone working with traditional film and darkroom procedures-which I rely on exclusively

for all my black and white work...because it's still the best-The Darkroom Cookbook is essential

for your library. No other book puts it all together as thoroughly and understandably as this book."

Bruce Barnbaum, author of The Art of Photography

"For many decades, Steve Anchell has dedicated himself to solid no-nonsense research and

information gathering on the entire breadth of black and white film and paper processing. And he

is still at it. I consider this book essential for all darkroom work and keep a much used copy right in

my darkroom. This book now stands alone for information of this kind."

Gordon Hutchings, photographer and author of The Book of Pyro

"Steve Anchell has done a fantastic job of creating THE essential reference for everyone who uses

film or prints in a darkroom. The Darkroom Cookbook contains the best and most useful of film

photography's formulas, plus an immense amount of information on how to use them correctly."

John Wimberley, photographer

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