Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes by Christina Z. Anderson

First edition 2013 Revised edition 2022 8.25˝x10.75˝/ 230 pages, 300 photographs, 90 artists

Table of Contents Setting Up the Dimroom, Digital Negatives, Section I Dichromated Colloid Processes: The History of Gum, Paper, Gum, and Dichromate Preparation, Pigment Preparation, Making the Gum Print, Creative Ideas for Gum, Troubleshooting Gum, Casein Section II Other Amazing Processes:Cyanotype, Argyrotype, Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, Chrysotype, Platinum and Palladium, Ziatype, Salted Paper, Combination Printing Appendix: Varnishes, Contemporary and Antique, More Casein Formulas Textbook-style, good for a semester-long alt class. Section I covers gum and casein bichromate in depth. Section II covers the most popular, student-friendly, contact printing processes in a succinct manner—cyanotype, argyrotype, kallitype, Vandyke brown, chrysotype, platinum/palladium, ziatype, salted paper and combination printing.