Fine art printing

Black-and-White Negatwe Vilm. Black-and-white photographs are usually reproduced from photographic prints. To preserve maximum details, eg, in fine-art reproductions, an original black-and-white negative may be scaimed direcdy. 

Schulz, Bernard, Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy (Massachussetts UMI Research Press, Studies in the Fine Arts Art Theory, second print, 1985). 

The most important skill a photographer can learn is how to adjust a formula to express a particular subject. For example, fine-art photographer, Paul Caponigro, has been known to mix varying proportions of warm-tone developer with cold-tone developer to create an altogether new tone for a specific subject or body of work. In printing, more than any other area of the darkroom, the only rules are those you make for yourself. 

Intaglio Flat-bed Cylinder Fine art work printing Bank note printing... 

Print and Drawing Conservation Laboratory, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. 02115... 

Print and Drawing Conservation Laboratory, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif. 98121... 

Devon, Marjorie. Tamarind Techniques for Fine Art Lithography. New York Abrams, 2009. A hands-on manual of techniques for artists seeking to produce lithographic prints, written by the director of the Tamarind Institute of Lithography at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. 

Setting-off of art prints (i.e., sticking together and transfer of ink) can he prevented by spraying the prints with a fine coating of an aqueous solution of PEG 4000 or 6000. The same effect is obtained by using PEG to treat the interleaves inserted to protect valuable prints. 

A fine little work is "The Hermetic Arcanum", by D Espagnet, which is procurable. One of the best books is "The Great Art", by Pernety. This, too, is out of print, and has to be found in second-hand book stores. About 12 years ago a large number of these books were procurable, and suddenly, as interest was roused in this subject by our writings, the books all seemed to disappear, as if by some strange magic. 

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