Photogravure
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Description
A photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio plate that can reproduce detailed continuous tones of a photograph.
The process was important in 19th-century photography, but by the 20th century was only used by some fine art photographers.
Synonyms and Related Terms
fotogravure (Ned.); photogravure (Fr.); héliogravure (Fr.); Fotogravüre (Deut.); Heliogravüre (Deut.); fotoncisione (It.); fotograbado (Esp.); fotogravyr (Sven.)
Resources and Citations
- The Art of Photogravure: Process August 2022
- Wikipedia: Photogravure August 2022
- Multilingual Glossary for Art Librarians at http://www.ifla.org/VII/s30/pub/mgl.htm