{"id":28243,"date":"2024-03-17T01:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T05:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28243"},"modified":"2024-03-16T20:09:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:09:03","slug":"illustrating-books-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/illustrating-books-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"illustrating books, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Still life in SAGE data transmission lab Montreal c1960<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto. <\/strong>Books, newspapers, and magazines were illustrated on occasion with lithographs or drawings transposed to engraved plates.<\/p>\n

In the 1820s, there was considerable interest in capturing a scene by the effect of sunlight. A young Frenchman, Joseph Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce<\/a>, liked lithography but was not a good artist. In the 1820s Ni\u00e9pce tried to get the sunlight to expose a scene on metal, ready for engraving.<\/p>\n

His process took many many hours of exposure. He collaborated with another Frenchman, Louis Daguerre<\/a> who was also interested in capturing scened by sunlight as references for his dioramas. Daguerre and an English gentleman called Fox Talbot<\/a> were finally successful in ‘permanently’ capturing scenes by sunlight with a few minutes of exposure. The pair independently discovered a way to ‘photograph’ a scene and announced their processes in January, 1839; one in France and the other in England.<\/p>\n

Their discovery was a new art – photography. which was a sensation around the world. At first it did not help illustrate books in the way Ni\u00e9pce had hoped. Years later the half-tone<\/a> process was successfully developed and changed the black and white of printing to the gray shades of a photograph and later did the same for colour photos (CMYK process).<\/p>\n

A modern day book “print on demand<\/a>” service (Wordzworth) has a very clear explanation of how books are illustrated in monotone or colour.<\/p>\n

So when you see drawings, photographs and colour photographs in a printed product, think of photography and its help to form our modern world<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Books, newspapers, and magazines were illustrated on occasion with lithographs or drawings transposed to engraved plates. In the 1820s, there was considerable interest in capturing a scene by the effect of sunlight. A young Frenchman, Joseph Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e9pce, liked … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[1620,3035,3034,2081,100,220],"class_list":["post-28243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cmyk","tag-half-tone","tag-halftone","tag-lithography","tag-photography","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28247,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243\/revisions\/28247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}