30 icons - Stock (photogravure)

[januaried]

So I was browsing around for stock images and came across a website about photogravure, which, as I learned, is an engraved photograph. Photogravure was apparently once an essential part of the burgeoning art of photography, and was known for softer images with more tonal detail. And they make interesting icons. :D








Photographs of Mexico (1940) from Photogravure

"Many consider Paul Strand's portfolio, Photographs of Mexico, issued in 1940, the finest photogravures ever made. In this seminal body of work, Strand relies on the rich depth and texture of photogravure to convey the quiet and somber state of the Mexican people and the landscape of a war-torn country impoverished by revolution."

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The Intelligence of Flowers (1907) and The Door In the Wall and
Other Stories (1907) by Alvin Langdon Coburn from Photogravure

"Coburn worked primarily as a portrait photographer and book illustrator, pursuits that frequently complimented each other. In his early twenties, he befriended British writer George Bernard Shaw, who happily introduced Coburn to many of his colleagues. Coburn subsequently illustrated books by G. K. Chesterton, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson and H. G. Wells."

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