This is a publication about what photographs are made of. Nine sections follow the medium as a chemical and optical process — the sensitised surface, the wet plate, exposure, the darkroom, the enlarger, local control of the print, permanence, colour, and the sensor.
Each entry takes one process or one step, states what it demands of the person doing it, and then explains the look that follows from those demands. Why a daguerreotype has to be tilted to be read. Why a wet-plate street is empty of people. Why a print is argued with rather than issued. The argument throughout is that the appearance of a photograph is not a style applied to it but a consequence of what its materials could do.
The writing is in English. There are no reviews and no listings here, and the publication is not a venue: it is a reference you can read in order or dip into from the register.