{"id":32628,"date":"2025-10-28T01:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32628"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:28:38","slug":"sans-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sans-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"sans photography …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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based on a chemigraph<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Have you ever heard of a”chemigraph”? \u00a0It is an engraving made on a metal (zinc) plate using chemicals instead of photography. The word originated in German combining chem- + -graph The image can be reproduced as a platinum print.<\/p>\n

The process maybe somewhat uncommon as there is little reference to it on the internet.<\/p>\n

Past president, sports photographer, and author Les Jones sent a note the other day about some finds from the USA. He says in part, “[This is] a photo marked \u201cA permanent \u2018platino\u2019 chemigraph\u201d. Photo by Strauss, St, Louis. Negative on Cramer Isochromatic Plate. Reproduction from print on \u201cAristo-Platino\u201dpaper [see image at left].<\/p>\n

“Never heard of this particular type although Celio Barreto [PHSC programmes] has an article on The Platinotype Process so he might have input.<\/p>\n

“A chemigraph is an engraving made by the process of chemigraphy, which uses chemical actions to etch designs onto a metal plate, often zinc, without photography.\u00a0So maybe mine is a copy of a platinum print made by the chemigraph process??<\/p>\n

“FYI: in 2006: A photograph printed in platinum and then modified with the gum bichromate process, has sold for nearly $3 million at Sotheby’s.<\/p>\n

“[It’s] an image of a moonrise over a lake, printed in platinum and then modified with the gum bichromate process, has sold for nearly $3 million at Sotheby\u2019s, New York, setting a new price record for any art photograph.<\/p>\n

“As the chemist and photography expert Mike Ware reports, the record-breaking print, entitled The Pond – Moonlight<\/em>, dates from 1904 and is the work of the American artist Edward Steichen (1879-1973).”<\/p>\n

If you have further details on the rare process, drop me a line at info@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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