Light-sensitive material containing silver halide, reducing agent and polymerizable compound

An image-forming method which comprises:

• imagewise exposing a light-sensitive material comprising a light-sensitive layer provided on a support wherein the light-sensitive layer contains silver halide, a polymerizable compound and a hydrazine derivative having the following formula (I):
• ##STR13## in which R.sup.1 is a monovalent group selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkynyl group and a heterocyclic group, each of which may have one or more substituent groups;
• each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently is an aryl group which may have one or more substituent groups, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 form, together with the neighboring carbon, a condensed aromatic ring;
• R.sup.4 is a monovalent group selected from the group consisting of an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group and carbamoyl, each of which may have one or more substituent groups, to form a latent image of the silver halide;
• and
• simultaneously or thereafter heating the light-sensitive material to polymerize the polymerizable compound within the area where the latent image of the silver halide has been formed.