| | Cliché verre Images selected by
Alan Griffiths
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. Introduction
Acknowledgements: Bassenge Photography Auctions, Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, NYPL - New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery. |
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