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3 unusual facts about Photogravure


Photogravure

Photogravure practitioners such as Peter Henry Emerson and others brought the art to a high standard in the late 19th century.

The density of these baths is measured in degrees Baumé.

Two polymer plates commonly in use are Printight plates made by the Toyobo Corporation and Solarplates.


Heinrich Kühn

In 1911 Kühn invented the Gummigravüre technique, a combination of photogravure and Gum bichromate.

James Craig Annan

James Annan subsequently joined his family’s photographic business, T. & R. Annan and Sons of Glasgow, Hamilton and Edinburgh, and in 1883 went to Vienna to learn the process of photogravure from the inventor, Karel Klíč.

Ralph Steiner

White helped Steiner in finding a job at the Manhattan Photogravure Company, and Steiner worked on making photogravure plates of scenes from Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg (1830 – 1890) was an early professional portrait photographer who created photogravures of many famous contemporaries including Victor Hugo and Sarah Bernhardt.


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