{"id":303,"date":"2011-06-07T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2011-06-07T21:40:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:40:15","slug":"the-art-of-photo-engraving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/07\/the-art-of-photo-engraving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Photo-Engraving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the introduction to <em>The Art of Photo-Engraving<\/em>, 1929: &#8220;In these days of hustle and bustle and in a land accustomed to the translation of visions and dreams in terms of steel, concrete and marvelous machinery, a jaded army of sophisticates was thrilled by the appearance of a most unusual book.<\/p>\n<p>A book utterly devoid of poise or posture, purely technical and educational; yet a surprise and a sensation. A book acclaimed by all who saw it and prized by those so fortunate as to obtain a copy. A book for which ten times its original and advertised price was offered. This book is <em>Achievement in Photo-Engraving and Letter Press Printing, 1927<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The section on the art and process of photoengraving was reprinted in 1929 by Printing Plates Incorporated, Oakland, California. The following illustrations explain the process step-by-step, circa 1929.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengaving1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"693\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"678\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"692\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"692\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"677\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"674\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"692\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"677\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"694\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"photoengraving12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/06-Jun11\/photoengraving12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"685\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the introduction to The Art of Photo-Engraving, 1929: &#8220;In these days of hustle and bustle and in a land accustomed to the translation of visions and dreams in terms of steel, concrete and marvelous machinery, a jaded army of sophisticates was thrilled by the appearance of a most unusual book. A book utterly devoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}