1st Edition
Copper Plate Photogravure Demystifying the Process
PHOTOGRAVURE: WHAT IS IT?
Brief Process Description
History Context
Origins
Practitioners
Safety Issues
21st CENTURY METHOD
Making the Positive
Sensitizing the Tissue
Making the Resist
Selecting and Preparing the Copper
Exposing the Tissue with Positive Screen
Using Screens or Applying Dust- Grain Aquatints
Adhering and Developing the Resist
THE ETCHING PROCESS
Preparing the Ferric Chloride
Staging the Plate
Etching the Plate
THE PRINTING PROCESS
Making the First Proof
Reworking the Plate
Editioning the Print
ALTERNATIVE AND HISTORIC METHODS AND MATERIALS
Making Positives
Mixing the Sensitizer
Preparing the Copper
Exposing the Tissue
Applying an Aquatint
Dry Lay-down
Staging the Plate
Adjusting Baumé
Etching
Printing and Creative Explorations
Steel Facing the Plate
APPENDICES
Trouble-shooting Charts
Making a Random-patterned hard-dot Screen
Testing Procedures
Exposure Calculation Table
Flashing as Contrast Control
Note-keeping Charts
Step Scale Density Charts
Converting Specific Gravity to Baumé
Recipies and Formulae
Paper Chart for Photogravure Printing
Suppliers
REFERNCE MATERIALS
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
INDEX
Biography
David Morrish is a professor at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland and past head and chair of the Visual Arts Program. He teaches all levels of photography, and has taught several senior level students the photogravure process. He has also taught and worked with alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype and gum bichromate printing. His photographic and photogravure work has been shown across Canada and internationally, and he has been supported by several Canada Council Grants.
Marlene MacCallum is a professor at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland and past chair of the Visual Arts Program. Her primary teaching area is printmaking, all media and levels, and her secondary areas are introductory photography and drawing. She has taught the photogravure process to several senior level students and in workshops. She lectures and exhibits nationally and internationally. Her photogravure prints and book works have won a variety of awards, including the Grand Prize at the first International Contemporary Print Biennial in Trois-Rivières, Quebec and Honorable Mention from the Nexus Book Prize in Atlanta, Georgia.
