Notes
I recently scanned this wonderful Edward Curtis photogravure of a Native woman preparing salmon for drying/ smoking. This image will be part of the museum's exhibit on salmon which will be opening in February.
If you don't recall my earlier primer on photogravure, it is a photographic process which makes a metal plate for printing an image on paper. A light sensitive gel emulsion controls how deeply an acid etches into a metal plate, creating little reservoirs for ink to sit in. The print is made my pressing a wet piece of special paper against the plate. The deeper etching holds more ink so the paper becomes darker in those regions, providing a very nice approximation of the continuous tone image you get with traditional photographic printing. You can click on the "photogravure" tag to see more examples.
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Wonderful study from the fish prep on a hide, to 2 baskets, and I'm sure a hand woven screen, to dress. Thanks Arthur.
nels on 11th February 2019 @ 7:05am
This is simply wonderful! Keep up the good work!
Judy on 11th February 2019 @ 10:23am
This photogravure is in the museum collection. We removed it from a non-archival frame to properly conserve it. I took that opportunity to scan it so we can use the digital version for everyday access. I should note that our museum director thinks it is important that people get to see actual artifacts when they visit our collection. While a digital scan lets us print an image at a larger scale for use in an interpretive panel, we try to use the actual artifact in exhibits wherever possible.
ArthurB on 11th February 2019 @ 11:06am