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The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550 - 1820

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Winner of the 2017 IFPDA Book Award, honouring excellence in research, scholarship, and the discussion of new ideas in the field of fine prints. Copper-plate printmaking, developed alongside Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, was a huge business employing thousands of people, and dominating image production for nearly four centuries across the whole of Europe. Its techniques and influence remained very stable until the nineteenth century, when this world was displaced by new technologies, of which photography was by ...

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The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550 - 1820 2016, British Museum Press

ISBN-13: 9780714126951

Hardcover