The Art of Bromoil & Transfer

This 125 page hardcover book is the most complete definitive technical manual of the bromoil and transfer process to be published in more than 30 years. Every stage of the process is covered, including techniques taught to David by the old masters. The book contains 28 plates, including 9 historical reproductions from his collection of old master's work as well as 6 technical illustrations. 

$35 USD + $7.50 Postage

The Passion Pit: A Tribute to the Drive-In

Four years and 80,000 road miles have culminated in a rare photographic survey of a North American phenomenon, the drive-in movie theatre. Photographer, David Lewis crisscrossed the continent to capture on film the few remnants of a mid-20th century icon. His dramatic black and white photographs, each with its own unique story, transport us back to a golden era of cars and movies, unlocking our own memories of giddy times and forbidden pleasures.

A must-have gift for anyone who ever went to the drive-in.

hardcover book printed on beautiful rag paper, 95 pages, $50 CAD

Fifty copies of the book come with a limited edition silver print of the 400 Drive-in, Toronto. Price for the book and the print is $250 USD.

To order your autographed copy, please email me at dlewis@onlink.net We accept payment by cheque, money order, or Visa. Postage and insurance included in the price USD. Order 2 "Passion Pit" books and save $10.

Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape & Memory of Deindustrialization

"Corporate Wasteland is more than simply the best book on deindustrialization; it's a transnational road trip through the rust belt with everyone from Woody Guthrie to Walker Evans, Joseph Schumpeter to John Steinbeck along for the ride, pointing out the details, arguing about what happened, and digging onto the rich complexity of truth itself. The transcendent photographs of rotting industrial hulks and the elegiac words of the workers sear with the intensity of the once red-hot blast furnaces, now long grown cold. This book is not a lament- it is an entire landscape."

- Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University, author of Captive Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor

Steven High is Canada Research Chair in Public History at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt., 1969-1984.

David W. Lewis is a photographer and the author of The Art of Bromoil & Transfer and The Passion Pit: A tribute to the Drive-In.

Soft cover, 193 pages, $24.95 CAD

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Photographs circa 1910 by Dr. Emil Mayer

Dr. Emil Mayer was a master of the bromoil transfer process. Mayer's street photography, taken during the last years of the horse and carriage, offer us a rare and intimate vision of a bygone age. The result is a book that is lyrical, moving and exquisitely beautiful.

Hardcover, 51 plates autographed by author Ed Rosser, $40 postage included.