Understanding the basics of photography (which include shooting without camera), can get you started with alternative photographic processes, historical as well as contemporary.

1. Basic
photography
without
a camera

2. What is
photography?

3. How did the
photography start?

4. Capturing Light
Camera Lucida, Latin "light room“,
1807 by William Hyde Wollaston
&
Camera Obscura,
Latin “dark room”,
the first use of the term
by the German astronomer
Johannes Kepler in 1604

5. © camera-obsuca/Wikimedia-Commons

6. William Henry
Fox Talbot
© W_H_F_Talbot/Wikimedia-Commons

7. AFTER LONG
EXPERIMENTATION,
HE PATENTED IN
1841 THE CALOTYPE
NEGATIVE PROCESS
© Talbot_6/Wikimedia-Commons

8. Fox Talbot wrote:
“How charming it would be if it
were possible to cause these
natural images to imprint
themselves durably, and remain
fixed upon the paper!"

9. (Thus, photography = …)
© Stockbyte/stk25533wds/Photo’s.com

10. Is it then
necessary to
capture an
image with a
camera?

12. What do you
need to be
able to
photograph?

13. © Ampoule_pharmaceutique/Wikimedia-Commons

14. Light
sensitive
agent
© CCD_sensor/Wikimedia-Commons

16. carrier
© CCD_sensor/Wikimedia-Commons

18. A D A R K
S PA C E
© 2000px-Digital_Camera.svg/Wikimedia-Commons

19. LIGHT
© Gluehlampe_01_KMJ/
Wikimedia-Commons

20. © Light_trap_tank /Wikimedia-Commons

21. .RAW
developer

22. © Unidentified_African_American_soldier_in_Union_uniform_with_wife_and_two_daughters/Wikimedia-Commons

23. fixer

24. YOU DO NOT
NEED TO TAKE A
PICTURE WITH A
CAMERA!

25. WHAT ALTERNATIVES ARE
THERE?

26. alternative photography
can be divided into
different categories

27. HISTORICAL PROCESSES

28. a m b r o t y p e , d a g u e r r e o t y p e ,
c a l o t y p e , c y a n o t y p e , s a l t p r i n t ,
o p a l o t y p e , p h o t o g r a v u r e , e t c .

29. M O D E R N VA R I AT I O N S O F
H I S TO R I C A L P R O C E S S E S

30. 3 5 m m d a g u e r r e o t y p e ,
c o n t e m p o r a r y t i n t y p e , l i q u i d
l i g h t , p h o t o p o l y m e r , e t c .

31. IN CAMERA PROCESSES

32. 3d anaglyph photography, talbotype ,
infra red photography, etc.

33. NON CAMERA PROCESSES

34. a s t r o p h o t o g r a p h y , s c a n o g r a p h y ,
k i r l i a n p h o t o g r a p h y , X - r a y
( r a d i o l o g y ) a r t p h o t o g r a p h y , e t c .

35. DEVELOPING PROCESSES

36. caffenol, cross processing, autochrome
photography, etc.

37. DIRECT POSITIVE PROCESSES

38. daguerreotype, liquid light emulsion, wet
plate collodion, physautotype, etc.

39. PHOTOMECHANICAL PROCESSES,
TRANSFERS AND PRINTS

40. albumin print, gelatin silver print,
gum print, crytoleum, transfer, etc.

41. WHAT SHOULD YOU
CONSIDER WHEN
USING ONE OF THESE
TECHNIQUES?

42. Chemical substances:
• Dangerous / not
• Obtainable / not

43. DAY LIGHT
STUDIO
DAY LIGHT
DARK ROOM

44. SLOW
to
VERY SLOW
PHOTOGRAPHY

45. HOMEMADE
INSTRUMENTS
(CREATIVE)
V S
EXPENSIVE DEVICES

46. For your
orientation…

47. http://www.alterna
tivephotography.co
m

48. Activities in
The Netherlands and
Flanders:

49. http://dutchalternati
vephotography.blogs
pot.nl/p/agenda.htm

50. you can also find
Dutch Alternative
Photography on…

51. www.facebook.com/groups/DutchAlternativePhotography
&
www.linkedin.com/groups/Dutch-Alternative-Photography-Processes-
7414865

52. DARE TO
EXPLORE?
DISCOVER ALT
PHOTOGRAPHY!
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