Book description
The Darkroom Handbook, Second Edition, is a completely revised and updated version of a classic guide to the best design, construction, and equipment to use when setting up a darkroom.This book features ideas and money-saving tips on how to put a darkroom almost anywhere in your home or apartment. It takes you inside darkrooms of photographers around the world including those of famous photographers such as, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Berenice Abbott, and W. Eugene Smith. In addition, it contains detailed do-it-yourself plans for the most essential darkroom components, cutouts and design grids to plan that "dream" darkroom, and special sections on the color darkroom and the digital darkroom.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Darkrooms of the Famous
- 2. Darkrooms Around the World
- 3. Ideas for Placement
- 4. Designing the Room
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5. Building the Room
- Tools
- Installing Partitions
- Hanging Doors
- Installing Sheetrock
- Getting to Know Your Plumbing
- More about Your Plumbing
- Typical Darkroom Plumbing
- Roughing in the Plumbing
- Installing Supply Lines
- Installing the Drain
- The Easy Way Out and Unique Solutions
- A Modular Plumbing System
- Introduction to Electricity
- Electricity in the Darkroom
- Tools and Materials for Electrical Work
- Wiring the Circuits
- Modular Control Panel
- 6. Building the Inside
- 7. Processing Equipment
- 8. Enlarging Equipment
- 9. The Color Darkroom
- 10. Print Finishing
- 11. The Digital Darkroom
- Index
Product information
- Title: The New Darkroom Handbook, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 1997
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136091971
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