In this comprehensive guide, the author of the highly successful "Polaroid Transfers" takes Polaroid techniques one step further with a complete visual guide to creating SX-70 manipulations, transfers, and digital prints. 250 color illustrations.

This guide explains how to transfer polaroid images onto artists' papers,ilk, wood, and tile. It also describes how to enhance these pictures withaint, markers and crayons.

Tells the remarkable tale of Edwin Land's one-of-a-kind invention-from Polaroid's first instant camera to hit the market in 1948, to its meteoric rise in popularity and adoption by artists such as Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, and Chuck Close, to the company's dramatic decline into bankruptcy in the late '90s and its unlikely resurrection in the digital age.

From fashion to still life to alternative processes, take a journey behind the lens with the photographer as he presents what went into each image and what went on behind the scenes. Explore a variety of photographic techniques while learning tips on how to shoot compelling fashion and portrait shots in the studio and on location. Also included is a how-to section with step-by-step instructions for creating a variety of alternative processes including infrared photography, image transfers, emulsion lifts, SX-70 manipulations, salt prints, and cyanotypes. As a combination coffee table book and how-to manual, this dazzling collection of images will engage and inspire!

A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with camera phones in hand and social media accounts at the ready. And we know which pictures we like. But what makes a "good picture"? And how could anyone think those old styles were actually good? Soft-focus yearbook photos from the '80s are now hopelessly—and happily—outdated, as are the low-angle portraits fashionable in the 1940s or the blank stares of the 1840s. From portraits to products, landscapes to food pics, Good Pictures proves that the history of photography is a history of changing styles. In a series of short, engaging essays, Kim Beil uncovers the origins of fifty photographic trends and investigates their original appeal, their decline, and sometimes their reuse by later generations of photographers. Drawing on a wealth of visual material, from vintage how-to manuals to magazine articles for working photographers, this full-color book illustrates the evolution of trends with hundreds of pictures made by amateurs, artists, and commercial photographers alike. Whether for selfies or sepia tones, the rules for good pictures are always shifting, reflecting new ways of thinking about ourselves and our place in the visual world.

"An ideal book for someone keen to experiment with old techniques." Professional Photographer magazine

This unique manual teaches the specialized techniques for correcting photos, restoring damaged photos, changing backgrounds, and adding or subtracting people from an image. Filled with practical examples, the book teaches everything from input via scanning or digital photography to image manipulation and printed output.