texts
Baillie, Juliet. “Homemade Gadgets and Makeshift Darkrooms: Skilled Amateur Photography in 1930s Britain.” In Recording Leisure Lives: Everyday Leisure in 20th Century Britain, edited by S. Robert, H. Pussard, and M. Constantine, 149–164, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, 2012.
Cho, Lily. “Darkroom Material: Race and the Chromogenic Print Process.” Postmodern Culture 28, no. 2 (2018). doi:10.1353/pmc.2018.0010
Dominici, Sara. “Darkroom Networks: Mundane Subversiveness for Photographic Autonomy, 1880s-1900s.” photographies 14, no. 2 (2021): 265-286. doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2021.1877186
Dominici, Sara. Guest editorial: Locating the Darkroom. Special issue on "The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial". PhotoResearcher. 41, (2024): 4-15. http://www.eshph.org/journal/photoresearcher-no-41-2024/
Grönberg, Cecilia and Magnusson, Jonas (J). "Developing the Darkroom. A Conversation with Justine Varga." OEI, #102-103: 272-299.
Gupta, Pamila. “Of Sky, Water and Skin: Photographs from a Zanzibari Darkroom.” Kronos 46, no. 1 (2020): 266-280.
Jay, Bill. Cyanide & Spirits: An Inside-Out View of Early Photography. Munich: Nazraeli, 1991.
Park, Julia. My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self of Eighteenth-Century England. University of Chicago Press, 2023. [Forthcoming]
Sheehan, Tanya. Chapter 4 "A Matter of Public Health: Photographic Chemistry and the (Re)production of Healthy Bodies" in Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. Penn State University Press, 2011.
Tucker, Jennifer. Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Wall, Jeff. “Photography and Liquid Intelligence” In Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews, edited by Peter Galassi. Museum of Modern Art, 2007.
Wolmuth, Philip. "Radical Losses" In British Journal of Photography, June 2010.
projects
Autofoto (Rafael Hortala Vallve, David Boulogne, Marco Ferrari, Corinne Quin, 2009-present), a group of analogue photobooth experts who restore original auto-photography machines. Here's a clip of the inside of a photobooth and the link to a video on how to operate and service the Photo-Me / Auto-Photo Dip and Dunk Chemical Analog Photobooth -- a mechanical darkroom.
Bartos, Adam. Darkroom (2012). Photobook.
Campeau, Michel. Darkroom (2005-2006). Photographic series.
Cyr, John. Developer Trays (2010). Photographic series.
Cyr, John. Developer Abstractions (2015). Photographic series.
Gould, Meggan. Darkrooms (2023). Photographic series.
Lowe, Jack. The Lifeboat Station Project (2015-ongoing). The project relies on a mobile wet plate collodion darkroom.
Marshall, Robert. The Sound of Film (2015). Short video.
Miller, Garry Fabian The Light Gatherers (2022-2024). Lectures series.
Morell, Abelardo. Camera Obscura (1991-ongoing). Photographic series.
Strauss, Lucy. Darkroom Performances (2017-ongoing). Music composition.
Weir, Grace. Darkroom (2015). Two simultaneous films, 7’30” duration.
historic & re-interpreted spaces
Camera Obscura, Dumfries Museum (UK)
Camera Obscura, Museum zur Vorgeschichte des Films (Germany)
Camera Obscura, The Photographers' Gallery, London (UK)
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions, Edinburgh (UK)
Hardman's House, Liverpool (UK)
Mary Rosse's Darkroom, Birr Castle Demesne, Birr (Ireland)
Photographic Studio and Darkroom of Josip Pelikan, Celje (Slovenia)