Now we are experiencing a new period of total passion for synthetics - beautiful, bright, sharp, easily stamped and distributed pictures. But this is not for long. Absolute confidence in anything is a very serious reason to think. Just some fifteen years ago, no one knew about alternative photography. No one has ever heard such words as cyanotype, chrysotile, callitip in the post-Soviet space. But the process of sobering up has already begun, at least at the level of understanding that silver or a pixel is far from everything that photography can be limited to. Today, silver-free processes confidently occupy the niche of “mass photography for oneself”. There was an interest in authentic photoprocesses with almost two hundred years of history. At the same time, the dominance of "numbers" has made its own adjustments, and today we simply cannot imagine ourselves without such seemingly ordinary things as a printer, scanner, laptop. Digital photography and alternative photography, like cotton and synthetics, have their own areas of application. There is no need to be afraid of nylon, lycra and other synthetic fabrics in the same way that you do not need to shy away from Photoshop, a film scanner or Wi-Fi. But at the same time, it is important to breathe, and synthetic fabric does not let air through.This book is your guide to the world of beauty. It will reveal to you the secrets of the founding father of the first silver-free photography, John Herschel, who gave the whole world the beauty of azure prints of classical cyanotype. But the author will go beyond the alphabetical basics and present the reader with a real diamond of cyanotyping - free interpretations of scientific translations by an alternative cyanotypist photographer and doctoral scientist - Mike Ware, who has never been published in Russian. Using modern ideas of chemical science, Mike develops and improves John's ideas, developing a new method (cyanotype-2).According to the book, according to the author's intention, you can walk light, beaten by the wind, hoping to get fun and pleasure from the very promenade. You can ride a rollercoaster, choking with delight, and not knowing how complex and sophisticated this mechanism is, giving you unforgettable moments of pleasure. You can just enjoy the attraction! Or you can (whatever you like!) load yourself with useful skills and knowledge, which the author willingly shares with especially inquisitive people. For those who have made it a rule to work with an instrument only after understanding its device, this book, if not a desktop one, will at least be extremely useful for working with both simple and complex problems raised by cyanotype photographers.