Literature and Resources

1. General photography textbooks

• Mitchell, E. N. 1984. Photographic science.

This book is written by a physicist who made significant research on the mechanism of latent image formation. The book is organized as an undergraduate physics or chemistry fun course textbook, but this book is also of a great value for photographers with physics or chemistry background. The book covers from camera, optics, sensitized material, chemical process to lighting techniques.

2. General photography references

Thomas, W. ed. 1973. SPSE handbook of photographic science and engineering. Society of Photographic Sciences and Engineers, published by John Wiley & Sons.

3. Photographic chemistry

• Carroll, B. H., Higgins, G. C., and James, T. H. Introduction to photographic theory, Wiley.
• Haist, G. 1979. Modern photographic processing, Vol 1 and Vol 2. Wiley.
• Keller, K. 1993. Science and technology of photography, VCH. (This is probably the briefest yet most updated general photography book in single bound, and I consult this book the most.)
• Locker, D. J. 1996. Photography. In Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology, John Wiley & Sons.
• Mason, L. F. A., 1975. Photographic processing chemistry, Wiley.
• James, The theory of photographic process, 4th ed.
• Stroebel, L., Compton, J., Current, I., and Zakia, R. Basic photographic materials and processes.
• Walls, H. J., Attridge, G. G. 1977. Basic photo science, Focal Press.

4. Emulsion Chemistry

For beginning emulsion hobbists, papers by Carroll (1931) and Hill (1966) are recommended because they are relatively accessible and still accurate. References such as Baker (1948) and Wall (1929) should be viewed as historical and used with great caution since obsolete information and scientific inaccuracies are found.

For general emulsion chemistry, Duffin (1966) and Zelikman and Levi (1964) are good textbooks. Mueller (1977), James (1986), Sturmer and Marchetti (1989), Wey (1981), and Eachus and Olm (1989) are recommended review papers.

Carroll, Hubbard and Kretschman is a book, which collects early publication on the topic by those authors. Information contained in the paper are old compared to the latest literature, but they are still useful in some situations.

Books and book chapters listed in the previous section, such as Keller, Locker, Carroll et al., and James are also excellent general reference on this topic.

• Baker, T. T. 1948. Photographic emulsion technique, 2nd ed. Boston: American photographic publishing.
• Birr, E. J. 1974. Stabilization of photographic silver halide emulsions. London: Focal Press.
• Carroll, B. H. 1931. The preparation of photographic emulsions. J. of Chem. Education, 8, 2341-2367.
• Carroll, B. H., Hubbard, D. and Kretschman, C. M. 1968?. The photographic emulsion. London: Focal Press.
• Croome, R. J. and Clegg, F. G. 1965. Photographic gelatin. London: Focal Press.
• Duffin, G. F. 1966. Photographic emulsion chemistry. London: Focal Press.
• Eachus, R. S. and Olm, M. T. 1989. Aspects of applied inorganic photochemistry: the photographic process. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, Section C, 86, 3--48.
• Hamilton, J. F. 1988. The silver halide photographic process. Advances in Physics, 37, 359--441.
• Hill, T. T. 1966. Laboratory-scale photographic emulsion technique, J. of Chem. Education., 43, 492-498.
• Hoyen, H. A. and Wen, X. 1997. Image recording in silver halide media, In Proudfoot, C. N. Ed., Handbook of photographic science and engineering, The society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T).
• James, T. H. 1986. Chemical sensitization, spectral sensitization, and latent image formation in silver halide photography. In Volman, D. H., Gollnick, K. and Hammond, G. S. eds. Advances in Photochemistry, vol. 13. 329--425.
• Keenan, T. R. 2001. Gelatin. In Kirk-Othmer enchyclopedia of chemical technology. John Wiley & Sons.
• Meier, H. 1968. Spectral sensitization. London: Focal Press.
• Mueller, F. W. H. 1977. The photographic emulsion. In Neblette's Handbook of Photography and Reprography: Materials, Processes, and Systems, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
• Raue, R. 2001. Methine dyes and pigments. In Kirk-Othmer enchyclopedia of chemical technology. John Wiley & Sons.
• Sturmer, D. M. and Marchetti, A. P. 1989. Silver halide imaging. In J. Sturge, V. Walworth, and A. Shepp, eds., Imaging processes and materials: Neblette's eighth edition, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
• Sturmer, D. M. 2001. Dyes, sensitizing. In Kirk-Othmer enchyclopedia of chemical technology. John Wiley & Sons.
• Tan, Y. T. 1989. Silver halides in photography, MRS Bulletin, May 1989. 13--40. (This is a special issue on silver photography, where a few papers on the topic from materials science view were put together in the single issue, with Tan as the guest editor. The page range 13--40 covers all relevant articles.)
• Tani, T. 1995. Photographic sensitivity. (Oxford series in optical and imaging sciences, vol 8.) New York: Oxford University Press.
• Wall, E. J. 1929. Photographic emulsions. London: Chapman & Hall.
• Ward, A. G. and Courts, A., eds. 1977. The Science and Technology of Gelatin, London: Academic Press.
• Wey, J. S. 1981. Basic crystallization process in silver halide precipitation. In Wilcox, W. R. ed., Preparation and properties of solid state materials, volume 6, Lead tin telluride, silver halides and Czochralski growth. New York: Marcel Dekker. (Chapter 2; pp. 67--117)
• Zelikman, V. L. and Levi, S. M. 1964. Making and coating photographic emulsions. London: Focal Press.

5. Books on applications

• Clark, W. 1946. Photography by infrared, 2 ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Reed, M. and Jones, S. 1995. Silver gelatin: a user's guide to liquid photographic emulsions. London: Argentum. (reprint edition dated 2001)

6. Journals

Name of the Society   Name of the Journal   years   Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers   Photographic engineering   until July 1957   Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers   Photographic science and engineering   July 1957 to Nov./Dec. 1984   Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers   Journal of imaging science   Jan 1985 forward       Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers   Journal of applied photographic engineering   until Dec 1983   Society for Imaging Science and Technology   Journal of imaging technology   until Dec 1991   Society for Imaging Science and Technology   Journal of imaging science   until Dec 1991   Society for Imaging Science and Technology   The Journal of imaging science and technology   Jan 1992 forward       Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain   Journal of photographic science   until 1996   Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain   The imaging science journal   1997 forward       Society of Motion Picture Engineers   Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers   1916-1929   Society of Motion Picture Engineers   Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers   1930-1949   Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers   SMPTE Journal   1955   Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers   Journal of the SMPTE   1956-1975   Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers   SMPTE Journal   1976-?