At its core the reproduction of the printed word is usually a process which is based on relief printing. Historically (as things are now different),… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 46: A Marriage of Convenience — The Half-Tone Relief Process
For our ‘April Fool’ post, we decided not to attempt the creation of a spoof medieval manuscript or late 14th century Scottish printed book, tempting… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 41: All is not as it seems…
This week’s Inspiring Illustrations post about photography is on the topic of the somewhat less noble yet very prolific format of the postcard. As a… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 40: The Photographic Postcard
The medium of the Gelatin Silver Print was developed (no pun intended) in 1873 and was in general use by the 1880s. This type of… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 36: the Gelatin Silver Print
Instead of focusing on a specific medium, this week’s Inspiring Illustrations post on photography is devoted to a well-known presentation format, the stereograph. More recently… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 33: 3D Photography — the Stereograph
A photo-mechanical process based on the principal of oil and water repelling each other, the bromoil print is, loosely speaking, a type of lithography. To… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 30: oil and water don’t mix — The Bromoil Print
At first glance many would mistake the sepia tones of a woodburytype print with the very prolific 19th century process of the albumen print. There… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 26: a marriage of gelatin, lead, pigment and paper — The Woodburytype
Thinking at an elementary level about photographic processes, one can associate the physical makeup of photographs with the romance and glamour of precious metals such… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 24: the Humble Carbon Print
This week’s inspiring illustrations post is about a photo-mechanical process which I’ve always found to be one of the most evocative ways or reproducing photographs… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 22: the beauty of the photogravure
Printing out paper, or “P.O.P.” in photo-specialist jargon, constitutes the progression of the photographic print medium following the reign of the albumen print. Strictly speaking,… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 17: P.O.P.! (or, printing out paper!)
In 1850 the albumen print process was invented in France by Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard. Used almost exclusively in combination with glass plate negatives, the clarity and… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 14: rotten egg whites usher in the modern era of photography — the Albumen Print Process
The first photographic print medium was known as the salted paper print and was invented by the English scientist William Henry Fox Talbot. Publicly announced… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 11: Imbedded in the fibres: The Salted Paper Print
