Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>A great source of information on the printing techniques of Smith is in >one section of the book Darkroom. Originally published by Lustrum Press in >1977, it is unfortunately out of print. Highly recommended. Grap a copy if >you can find one or it's followup, Darkroom II. [snip] >Robert Browne Couldn't agree more, Robert. The "Darkroom" books are a wonderful source of information for the printing techniques of a number of fantastic photographers, a glimpse into the otherwise private space of the darkroom printer. Guy P.S. Lustrum Press was founded by Ralph Gibson in the early '70s, if I am not mistaken. Its first titles were probably his trilogy, though he also did a number of wonderful books (the darkroom books are among them), notably one by Mary Ellen Marks (were she and Gibson ever an item?) and one by Larry Clark, "Tulsa," which has just been reprinted in a facsimile edition by a publisher whose name I've forgotten.