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| Gumoil Photographic Printing, Revised Edition
     
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Paperback
176 pages
Focal Press
Published 1999
Book News, Inc.
Koenig's main interests during his two decades of photography have been high quality black-and-white printing and alternative processes. Here he explains a new method of using a 19th-century printing technique. It involves contact printing a positive transparency onto gum-coated paper, then applying oil paint and rubbing it into non- gummed areas of the print. With bleach etching, monochromatic and polychromatic variations are possible. No date is noted for the first edition; the second adds a chapter on digital technology. There is no index. -- Copyright ¬ 2000 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved
Synopsis
A presentation of a method of using a 19th-century contact printing technique. The author demonstrates how to use this antique medium for creating tinted, mono and polychromatic gum and oil images. There are step-by-step instructions, and before, during and after illustrations with directions for further experimentation. A new chapter on digital printing combines the new and the historic.
Book Description
There is renewed interest among art photographers in a number of historic printing techniques because of the remarkable effects they produce. The reader will discover how to create beautifully tinted mono- and polychromatic gum and oil images using the author's version of this 19th century technique. Step-by-step illustrated instructions with directions for further experimentation provide a perfect source for learning this new, yet old, printing technique.
Gumoil printing involves contact-printing a positive transparency onto gum-coated paper. Oil paint is then applied and rubbed into nongummed areas of the print. With bleach etching, mono- and polychromatic variations are possible. A chapter on digital printing combines the new and the historic, making this technique even more accessible for the art photographer.
Includes a new chapter on digital printing techniques
Step by step instructions for using this technique
Eight page insert containing 10 beautiful color images |
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