Process Work: Intersections of Photography and Print ca. 1825 to Today
"Process Work: Intersections of Photography and Print ca. 1825 to Today" explores the development of photographic printmaking processes and traces their historical legacy into the present day. Starting around 1825, a widespread interest in reproducing visual information faster and more cheaply fueled an explosion of experimentation in photographic printmaking techniques, with wide-ranging effects across visual culture and the fine arts. This exhibition highlights those early experiments and innovations, as well as the culture of mass-market illustration and printed media into which they first unfolded. Across a presentation of over 40 historic and contemporary photogravures, collotypes, photolithographs and relief prints, this exhibition poses the question: What are the social, aesthetic, and technological possibilities that emerge from the marriage between photography and print, both then and now?
Relevant research areas: North America, 19th Century, 20th Century, Contemporary, Book arts, Etching, Letterpress, Lithography, Relief printing, Screenprinting
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