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682.01   Process and product >  Improving content on photographic techniques

We are seeking to expand the themes covering photographic techniques and processes. These sections will include:

Invention of the process
Any related patents
Trade literature
Contemporary advertisements and announcements of the innovation
A description of the process and its variants
Historical examples and details of where examples can be located in public collections
Contemporary examples by photographers using the exact process.

Conservation will not initially be included but may be in the future if required.

Examples

682.02   Process and product >  Cliché verre

Cliché-verre [Fr.] literally translated means "glass picture' and is a technique that combines art and photography and was used mainly by French artists including Jean Baptiste Corot, Jean François Millet, and Charles François Daubigny. It was normally done by using a smoking candle to coat a glass plate with soot. The desired picture was then drawn with a sharp instrument directly into the blackened surface and the resulting plate was used as a photographic negative and contact printed. Although mainly used in the 1860s the cliché verre technique has also be used by György Kepes and Abelardo Morell.

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Further research

General reading

Glassman, Elizabeth & Symmes, Marilyn F., 1980, Cliché-verre: Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed: A Survey of the Medium from 1839 to the Present, (Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts) [Δ]





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Jean Baptiste Corot (1796-1875) • Charles François Daubigny (1817-1878) • György Kepes (1906-2001) • Abelardo Morell (1948-)

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A wider gaze

Albumen prints • Ambrotypes • Aristotypes • Autochromes • Bon Tons • Bromoil prints • Calotypes • Carbon prints • Cased photographs • Cliché-verre • Colour • Cyanotypes • Daguerreotypes • Dry-plate photography • Fresson prints • Gelatin silver prints • Hand-painted photographs • Imprimerie photographique Blanquart-Evrard • Infrared photography • Iphone applications • Ivorytypes • Kirlian photography • Lantern slides • Magic lanterns • Manipulated photography • Mordançage • Negatives • Orotones • Paget plates • Painting on photographs • Panoramas • Photo postcards • Photogenic drawings • Photograms • Photogravures • Platinum prints • Polaroids • Postcards • Prints • Salt prints • Scanning electron microscope • Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards • Tintypes • Waxed paper negatives • Wet-plate photography

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Cliché verre
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Released (May 25, 2012)

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Charles François Daubigny: Cliché-verre
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Jean Baptiste Corot: Cliché-verre
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   Techniques

Cliché-verre

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