The New Darkroom Handbook

Visits in words and pictures to the labs of top photographers give helpful, human glimpses of this highly technical milieu.'Publisher's Weekly. 'Clearly written, well organized, thoroughly illustrated and chock full of ingenious ideas on darkroom layout and design, building, wiring, plumbing, equipping and organizing.'--Don Carroll, Photomethods'Fascinating period illustrations recall the wet-plate roving darkrooms of a century ago

An excellent read! Ciaran This was a fantastic read. Living in an apartment, it has been rather difficult to situate my darkroom in an efficient and useable way.First of all, this book takes you on a tour of the darkrooms of the famous from around the world. It is rather inspiring to see how some of the. "Just what I Remembered" according to Lynnette Shimmin. I used to have this book back in the day when I grew up with a dark room in my house. I took photography in highschool just so I could get an easy "A". Now that a friend and I are talking about putting together an "old school" darkroom, I searched all over and found this old st. This is a great book for people wanting to set up a darkroom This is an excellent book that follows you through the process of determning a room, making modifications if neccesary and creating the physical space for a darkroom.In addition creating the room, it will take you through the equipment requirements and general layout and design

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. This book features ideas and money-saving tips on how to put a darkroom almost anywhere in your home or apartment. Eugene Smith. 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. 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.