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I'm taking a photogravure class
Dec. 9th, 2009 04:53 amFrom Lothar Osterberg (I thought I had posted about seeing his show recently, actual content that made me think it was here and not FB, but I can't find it here....)
He does cool images of small models, very shallow depth of field, toned and marked up to look like old film.
8 people, three-day class. I've always been fascinated with photogravure as a process both because of the wonderful deep blacks you can get (something he didn't always go for in his work, which made it work less well for me) and because the old-school idea of a created *thing* instead of just a digital file appeals to me (and you get to call the thing "hand-pulled".)
I have always hated darkrooms and love the try-this-try-that-don't-like-OK-revert workflow of digital, and the photogravure process is much slower and more deliberate. I'm thinking that an artistic process that forces me out of my fast-and-last-minute mode of how I complete pretty much everything will be frustrating but ultimately good.
I've been going through old images and realize that the ones I think might make good gravures, I've already processed to look something like them. So I have to go back and find the originals. I've got a month. I'm excited.
He does cool images of small models, very shallow depth of field, toned and marked up to look like old film.
8 people, three-day class. I've always been fascinated with photogravure as a process both because of the wonderful deep blacks you can get (something he didn't always go for in his work, which made it work less well for me) and because the old-school idea of a created *thing* instead of just a digital file appeals to me (and you get to call the thing "hand-pulled".)
I have always hated darkrooms and love the try-this-try-that-don't-like-OK-revert workflow of digital, and the photogravure process is much slower and more deliberate. I'm thinking that an artistic process that forces me out of my fast-and-last-minute mode of how I complete pretty much everything will be frustrating but ultimately good.
I've been going through old images and realize that the ones I think might make good gravures, I've already processed to look something like them. So I have to go back and find the originals. I've got a month. I'm excited.
