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The Darkroom Cookbook, 5th Edition
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The Darkroom Cookbook, 5th Edition

by Steve Anchell
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
14h 4m
English
Routledge
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17Print Solarization

ED BUFFALOE

DOI: 10.4324/9781003353317-21

Don’t be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.”

—Edward Weston

A television antenna is mounted on the tiled roof of a building. Buildings with domes and towers are in the background.

The Three Times (Past, Present, & Future) Cuetzálan, July 29, 1994. © Ed Buffaloe. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the artist.

THE SABATIER EFFECT

The Sabatier effect, named for French scientist Armand Sabatier, has been popularly referred to as “print solarization.” And though this is technically not correct, I find it easier to speak in terms of “solarizing” a print than of “Sabatiering” it.

Solarizing means portions of a photographic paper's emulsion ...

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