Klass, a homeless, young Black man, sets up residence in the courtyard of the housing project where Ida Peters lives. Triggered by a fatal confrontation between a local street vendor and the police, Klass and Ida quickly develop a precarious bond against the backdrop of a restless neighborhood. Inspired by the Greek myth Leda and the Swan, Blacktop Sky examines the intersection of love, violence, and seduction.

Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice is a two part book on the much admired blue print process. Part One is a comprehensive how-to on the cyanotype process for both beginner and advanced practitioners, with lots of photographs and clear, step-by-step directions and formulas. Part Two highlights contemporary artists who are using cyanotype, making work that ranges from the photographic to the abstract, from the traditional to the conceptual, with tips on their personal cyanotype methods alongside their work. These artists illustrate cyanotype's widespread use in contemporary photography today, probably the most of any alternative process. Book features include: A brief discussion of the practice of the process with some key historical points How to set up the cyanotype OdimroomO The most extensive discussion of suitable papers to date, with data from 100+ papers Step-by-step digital negative methods for monochrome and duotone negatives Chapters on classic, new, and other cyanotype formulas Toning to create colors from yellow to brown to violet Printing cyanotype over palladium, for those who want to temper cyanotype's blue nature Printing cyanotype on alternate surfaces such as fabric, glass, and wood More creative practice ideas for cyanotype such as handcoloring and gold leafing Troubleshooting cyanotype, photographically illustrated Finishing, framing, and storing cyanotype Contemporary artists' advice, techniques, and works Cyanotype is backed with research from 120 books, journals, and magazine articles from 1843 to the present day. It is richly illustrated with 400 photographs from close to 80 artists from 14 countries. It is a guide for the practitioner, from novice to expert, providing inspiration and proof of cyanotype's original and increasing place in historical and contemporary photography.

* Written for photographers who are "post-visualizers", who believe image capture is merely the starting point to the final photograph. * Makes using the Darkroom accessible and approachable for contemporary photographers wishing to experiment with their prints and provides contemporary examples from practicing artists throughout. * The only book on the market to specifically focus on the contemporary experimental silver gelatin darkroom coupled with excerpt digital negatives.

Co-authored by Ron Reeder, the inventor of the QTR system for digital negatives, the book provides a comprehensive, highly illustrated and accessible guide to the creation of digital negatives using QTR; a vital skill for anyone interested in alternative process photography and printmaking. Includes quick start guides on topics such as downloading and installing QTR and Print Tool, installing a ready-made profile, making a profile from scratch, printing with the Print Tool, and using the Color Calibration tool for those who want to jump straight into practice. Features detailed individual digital workflows for palladium, gelatin silver, cyanotype, salted paper and gum printing, with accompanying downloadable printer profiles. Includes a section devoted to contemporary QTR artists and their individual methods, process and tips.

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists makes one of the oldest known photographic processes easy for the 21st century using simple digital negative methods. Christina Z. Anderson's in-depth discussion begins with a history of salted paper printing, then covers the salted paper process from beginner to intermediate level, with step-by-step instructions and an illustrated troubleshooting guide. Including cameraless imagery, hand-coloring, salt in combination with gum, and printing on fabric, Salted Paper Printing contextualizes the practice within the varied alternative processes. Anderson offers richly-illustrated profiles of contemporary artists making salted paper prints, discussing their creative process and methods. Salted Paper Printing is perfect for the seasoned photographer looking to dip their toe into alternative processes, or for the photography student eager to engage with photography's rich history.

Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by the medium's leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One provides a step-by-step description of the gum printing process. From setting up the "dimroom" (no darkroom required!) to evaluating finished prints, it walks the reader through everything that is needed to establish a firm gum practice with the simplest of setups at home. Section Two showcases contemporary artists' works, illustrating the myriad ways gum is conceptualized and practiced today. The works in these pages range from monochrome to colorful and from subtle to bold, representing a variety of genres, including still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, urbanscapes and more. Featuring over 80 artists and 400 full-color images, Gum Printing is the most complete overview of this dynamic and expressive medium that has yet appeared in print. Key topics covered include: The history of gum Simple digital negatives for gum, platinum, and cyanotype Preparing supplies Making monochrome, duotone, tricolor, and quadcolor gum prints Printing gum over cyanotype Printing gum over platinum Troubleshooting gum Advice on developing a creative practice

Co-authored by Ron Reeder, the inventor of the QTR system for digital negatives, the book provides a comprehensive, highly illustrated and accessible guide to the creation of digital negatives using QTR; a vital skill for anyone interested in alternative process photography and printmaking. Includes quick start guides on topics such as downloading and installing QTR and Print Tool, installing a ready-made profile, making a profile from scratch, printing with the Print Tool, and using the Color Calibration tool for those who want to jump straight into practice. Features detailed individual digital workflows for palladium, gelatin silver, cyanotype, salted paper and gum printing, with accompanying downloadable printer profiles. Includes a section devoted to contemporary QTR artists and their individual methods, process and tips.

Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by the medium's leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One provides a step-by-step description of the gum printing process. From setting up the "dimroom" (no darkroom required!) to evaluating finished prints, it walks the reader through everything that is needed to establish a firm gum practice with the simplest of setups at home. Section Two showcases contemporary artists' works, illustrating the myriad ways gum is conceptualized and practiced today. The works in these pages range from monochrome to colorful and from subtle to bold, representing a variety of genres, including still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, urbanscapes and more. Featuring over 80 artists and 400 full-color images, Gum Printing is the most complete overview of this dynamic and expressive medium that has yet appeared in print. Key topics covered include: The history of gum Simple digital negatives for gum, platinum, and cyanotype Preparing supplies Making monochrome, duotone, tricolor, and quadcolor gum prints Printing gum over cyanotype Printing gum over platinum Troubleshooting gum Advice on developing a creative practice

Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice is a two part book on the much admired blue print process. Part One is a comprehensive how-to on the cyanotype process for both beginner and advanced practitioners, with lots of photographs and clear, step-by-step directions and formulas. Part Two highlights contemporary artists who are using cyanotype, making work that ranges from the photographic to the abstract, from the traditional to the conceptual, with tips on their personal cyanotype methods alongside their work. These artists illustrate cyanotype's widespread use in contemporary photography today, probably the most of any alternative process. Book features include: A brief discussion of the practice of the process with some key historical points How to set up the cyanotype OdimroomO The most extensive discussion of suitable papers to date, with data from 100+ papers Step-by-step digital negative methods for monochrome and duotone negatives Chapters on classic, new, and other cyanotype formulas Toning to create colors from yellow to brown to violet Printing cyanotype over palladium, for those who want to temper cyanotype's blue nature Printing cyanotype on alternate surfaces such as fabric, glass, and wood More creative practice ideas for cyanotype such as handcoloring and gold leafing Troubleshooting cyanotype, photographically illustrated Finishing, framing, and storing cyanotype Contemporary artists' advice, techniques, and works Cyanotype is backed with research from 120 books, journals, and magazine articles from 1843 to the present day. It is richly illustrated with 400 photographs from close to 80 artists from 14 countries. It is a guide for the practitioner, from novice to expert, providing inspiration and proof of cyanotype's original and increasing place in historical and contemporary photography.

* Written for photographers who are "post-visualizers", who believe image capture is merely the starting point to the final photograph. * Makes using the Darkroom accessible and approachable for contemporary photographers wishing to experiment with their prints and provides contemporary examples from practicing artists throughout. * The only book on the market to specifically focus on the contemporary experimental silver gelatin darkroom coupled with excerpt digital negatives.

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists makes one of the oldest known photographic processes easy for the 21st century using simple digital negative methods. Christina Z. Anderson's in-depth discussion begins with a history of salted paper printing, then covers the salted paper process from beginner to intermediate level, with step-by-step instructions and an illustrated troubleshooting guide. Including cameraless imagery, hand-coloring, salt in combination with gum, and printing on fabric, Salted Paper Printing contextualizes the practice within the varied alternative processes. Anderson offers richly-illustrated profiles of contemporary artists making salted paper prints, discussing their creative process and methods. Salted Paper Printing is perfect for the seasoned photographer looking to dip their toe into alternative processes, or for the photography student eager to engage with photography's rich history.

Reagan Farrell never thought she would join the Aegis, but that's exactly what she's doing. Now that King Midas has the golden touch and has turned her friends into statues, Reagan has no choice but to feign ignorance. If she ever wants to save her friends, she needs King Midas's help-and she knows she won't get that easily. The only trick is getting King Midas to believe that she doesn't remember anything about her friends. But when King Midas welcomes Reagan willingly into her castle, she realizes something is wrong. King Midas knows something that Reagan doesn't, and without Deval, Reagan isn't sure she can figure out how to fix everything. And sorting out King Midas's lies from her truths is a task all in itself. There's one lie she can't figure out: Vincent. Not only is Vincent alive and well, but he seems to have taken Terrence's spot as Prince of the Aegis. How long has King Midas had this planned, and how long can Reagan survive in her enemy's headquarters? This is the third and final installment of the Gilded Trilogy.

Reagan is ready to strike back. The Aegis, an organization whose mission is to control the golden touch, uses weapons liberally in its attempt to gain power, and after watching the group destroy the world she knows, Reagan plans to get revenge by killing their prince. When the Aegis capture her, it is highly convenient that the prince personally decides her fate. Yet Reagan finds herself unable to kill Prince Terrence, too enamored by his kindness to even make a scratch. In fact, his goal is not so different from her own: he wants to leave the Aegis fortress to stop the king, too. Or, at least, that's what he tells her. As the Aegis grows stronger and stronger, it seems Reagan has no choice; she must team up with Prince Terrence and attempt to stop the golden touch from falling into the wrong hands, even if it means putting her life in the hands of a man she meant to kill. Aerosion is the first book in the Gilded Trilogy.

Reagan Farrell is running out of time. King Midas has escaped, and rumor has it she will stop at nothing to obtain the golden touch. And she is elusive, weaving her way through seas and land to make it to something-something that only King Midas knows about. The only hint she leaves behind for Reagan is a string of disappearances and deaths, a bloody trail to follow. It doesn't help that no one knows how to sail a ship, and Aerosion Gliders can only take Reagan and her friends so far. The only person to offer assistance to them is unwanted, and no one, especially Terrence, can trust the former Aegis Jack. But they take him on their team, anyway, and he leads them across the sea to track down King Midas and stop her before it's too late. It doesn't help that Jack knows more than he is willing to let on. With a man they can't trust steering a boat they can't control, it gets harder and harder to stop King Midas. But Reagan is determined to end this once and for all, and she will stop at nothing to stop the golden touch. This is the second book in the Gilded Trilogy.

'Post-black' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural expectations of blackness of the past and moving beyond the conventional binary of black and white. Reflecting this multiplicity of perspectives, the plays in this collection explode the traditional ways of representing black families on the American stage, and create new means to consider the interplay of race, with questions of class, gender, and sexuality. They engage and critique current definitions of black and African-American identity, as well as previous limitations placed on what constitutes blackness and black theatre. Written by the emerging stars of American theatre such as Eisa Davis and Marcus Gardley, the plays explore themes as varied as family and individuality, alienation and gentrification, and reconciliation and belonging. They demonstrate a wide-range of formal and structural innovations for the American theatre, and reflect the important ways in which contemporary playwrights are expanding the American dramatic canon with new and diverse means of representation. Edited by two leading US scholars in black drama, Harry J. Elam Jr (Stanford) and Douglas A. Jones Jr (Princeton), this cutting edge anthology gathers together some of the most exciting new American plays, selected by a rigorous academic backbone and explored in depth by supporting critical material.