Photogravure
A general term for any metal-plate intaglio printing process in which the image has been transferred to the plate by photographic means. Acid is used to incise the image into the plate; the plate is then inked, wiped, and printed on a press.
Featured Works
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The Moon (Boussingault, Vlacq, Maurolycus) from Atlas Pho...
Maurice Loewy
1899
St. Paul's and Other Spires
Alvin Langdon Coburn
1908
Untitled
Arnulf Rainer
(1975)
Gymnasium Chases
Christian Boltanski
1991 (project begun 1989).
Las Animas
Kiki Smith
1997
The Clay Mill from Pictures of East Anglian Life (1888)
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1887
T&I
Tacita Dean
2006