The Variable Contrast Printing Manual
by Steve Anchell
from Focal Press

Editorial Review:

The Variable Contrast Printing Manual is the only comprehensive resource for photographers printing with variable contrast papers. Anchell provides a wealth of techniques and information to enable photographers to achieve the best possible results, and express their unique personal vision. As in his best-selling The Darkroom Cookbook (Focal Press), Anchell has provided the reader with an easy-to-follow approach to a medium that now dominates black-and-white printing.
Stephen G. Anchell has been a freelance and commercial photographer, writer, and instructor for over 25 years. His fine-art black-and-white photography has been internationally exhibited and collected. He teaches workshops and seminars privately, at universities, and for companies such as Agfa, Cachet Fine Art Paper Company, and Sinar-Bron. His writing on photography has appeared in View Camera, Shutterbug, PIC (Great Britain), and PhotoPro magazines. He was a contributing editor to the former Camera and Darkroom magazine, and is a current contributing editor to PhotoWork and Outdoor Photographer magazines.
Only comprehensive how-to manual for printing on variable contrast papers.
Timely and instructive; provides a wealth of proven techniques.
Invaluable reference for art photographers.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• technical work
  deeply technical work - will need to take time to take all this on board

• Worthwhile.
  For anyone getting into or going back to photography, this is a very helpful book. Easily read and workable.

• Useful Darkroom tool
  This book is useful if you are trying to dig deeper in your understanding of how Multi contrast papers work, however given the explosion of digital and inkjet printers in recent years, I wonder how much longer this excellent book will remain relevant?

• Not so usefull for me
  Many charts and graphs of enlargers and materials which I cannot reach here, in the Russia.