a cliche-verre experiment

what is it;

a photo?

a print?

an image on photographic paper?

a hand wrought image contact printed?

a form of printmaking? (in the non photographic sense)

comments/critiques/opinions?

Ray, your examples seem in the tradition (19th c particularly but there are also many more recent examples as well) of using line drawings as negatives for cliche-verre prints. Here's a different kind of example, one of my early experiments in the technique, to perhaps generate some more discussion. Printed on gum bichromate of course:

I might add, if anyone's curious, that I drew the negative for this with colored markers on mylar. I used different marker colors to create different tones, as determined by prior experimentation.

I've been working with cliche verre for many years. Check out my website for examples: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/pfeld/

I've been working with cliche verre for many years. Check out my website for examples: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/pfeld/

Hi Peter,
I'm having some trouble defining drawings that are scanned and then printed as inkjet prints (as in your two "Cliche-verre" series) as cliche-verre; I've always understood cliche-verre to mean drawings that are printed as negatives on photosensitive material, as with the images in your book. If drawings that aren't printed to photosensitive material can be called cliche-verre, then the term loses its meaning altogether, I think. Doesn't it?
Katharine