Alternative process

Alternative photography
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The term alternative process refers to any non-traditional or non-commercial photographic printing process. Currently, the standard analog photographic printing process for black-and-white photographs is the gelatin silver process.^[1] Standard digital processes include the pigment print, and digital laser exposures on traditional color photographic paper.^{[citation needed]}

Alternative processes often overlap with historical, or non-silver processes. Most of these processes were invented over 100 years ago and were used by early photographers.^[2][3]

Many contemporary photographers are revisiting alternative processes and applying new technologies (the digital negative) and practices to these techniques.