photogravure
Americannoun
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any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
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the plate.
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a print made from it.
noun
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any of various methods in which an intaglio plate for printing is produced by the use of photography
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matter printed from such a plate
Other Word Forms
- photogravureist noun
Etymology
Origin of photogravure
Example Sentences
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He employed a wide range of materials in them — wood, bronze, steel, aluminum, brass, cardboard, paper, canvas, plastic, vellum, photogravure and wallboard.
From Los Angeles Times
She made collages of the cutouts and turned them into photogravures, a printing process that smoothed the various clippings into one flat image.
From New York Times
“Foundling Warrior Quest” appears in the form of photogravures that she later made from those images in 2010.
From New York Times
The National Gallery of Art, though, wants visitors to use the other side of their brains, seeing Charles Le Morvan’s 1914 photogravures as not just maps of the Moon, but art.
From Washington Post
An English artist, Cornelia Parker, has revived Talbot’s photogravure process: a sheet of metal is covered in light-sensitive chemicals, then objects are laid directly onto it.
From Economist
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