Hi Eric, I am Zernike from Hong Kong. I making intaglio many years ago and I am concentrating in Mezzotint, there is less than 3 mezzotinters in Hong Kong. Now I am concentrating in pinhole photography.
I like the velvet black and photography like image of mezzotine, the tonal range is extremely rich but it takes me more than 40 hours to prepare a 3" x 3" copper plate. Another method to have photography like image is photo-etching but this method involve in using poison chemical and my teacher didn't recommend me to do it, I never have a chance to try on it. I have try Gum-printing but the tone and details is not as rich as a mezzotint or photogravures. I am interesting in photogravures and would like to know more about this method and where to get the necessories materials. Is there any information about it? I am thinking about if it is possible to exposure the copper plate (for photogravures) directly with my pinhole camera... Thanks in advance for your kindly help. Zernike Eric wrote: > I'm Eric Theise, 42, originally from Chicago, have lived in San Francisco > for twelve years. Up until recently, I've always let making art slide > in favor of making a living and having some sort of career. But I've > taken pictures since I was in grade school, and did some 16mm film work > in the 80s. > > Last summer I took an etching workshop at Crown Point Press, and got > very fired up about the whole thing. I joined what is basically a > printmakers co-op in Berkeley called Kala, and this summer I took the > photogravure workshop at Crown Point. In preparation for that, I built > a 4 x 5 pinhole camera out of pine and a grafmatic back, and have by now > finished editioning five photogravures, and am getting ready to shoot > and print some more.
