Advanced darkroom books

[Ondrej1]

It's time for me for some amazon.com book shopping and I want to add some advanced darkroom book(s) to other items. Last time I bought Adams' trilogy, which is wonderful (although I use mainly Print part) and Anchell's The Variable Contrast Printing Manual, which is not exactly what I was looking for (too much reference, too few samples) but still good purchase.

I am not interested in reference type of books, more in theory plus lot of samples books. After some searching I put on my wish list following:

• Carson Graves: The Elements of Black and White Printing, Second Edition
• Bernhard Suess: Mastering Black-and-White Photography: From Camera to Darkroom
• Ansel Adams: Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs

Any recommendations, warnings, suggestions of entirely different books...
will be much appreciated

[Ole]

Tim Rudman's books are worth a read - both for information and inspiration.

[naaldvoerder]

Why beyond monochrome by Woodhouse and Lambrecht

[Black Dog]

John Blakemore's Black & White Photography Workshop
Edge of Darkness-Barry Thornton
Darkroom 1 and 2- published by Lustrum Press in the 70s but you should be able to turn up a copy on the net.

[FirePhoto]

Our own Les McLean's "Creative Black and White Photography."

[HenrikB]

If I were to choose one book, I'd go with Tim Rudmans rather old "Master Printing Course", a gem with practical information which should be a perfect followup on your Adams' reading. It really inspires you to experiment.

For alternative processes, try Jill Enfields "Photo Imaging".

[jbj]

Also Ansel Adams' :

"The Negative" and "The Print" will both complement "The Making of 40 Photos"

[Mark Fisher]

My two favorites are Bruce Barnbaum, Art of Photography (out of print) and Tim Rudman's Master Photography book. For examples, I'd look at Larry Bartlett's Black and White: Photographic Printing Workshop.......this is a pretty amazing book if you are learning to make an expressive print. All three of these books are listed on amazon (although Bruce Barnbaum's book isn't cheap used!)

[johnnywalker]

The ones I have are (in no particular order):

John Blakemore's Black & White Photography Workshop
Tim Rudman's Master Printing Course
Les McLean's Creative Black and White Photography
Barry Thornton's Edge of Darkness

All I can say so far is that they all are well written and informative. I hope that soon I will find the time to practice and learn what they are teaching.

[Soeren]

Originally Posted by naaldvoerder

Why beyond monochrome by Woodhouse and Lambrecht

You do mean "Way beyond................" right?
Kind regards
Søren