Re: gravure

[Tom Sobota <tsobota@teleline.es>]

Unai San Martin is from the Basque country in Spain. You can find some 
of his work here:
http://www.studio391.net/pages/unai_san_martin.htm
also here:
http://www.lamanopress.com/unai.html
and here:
http://www.donnaseagergallery.com/art_of_the_book/artists/Unai_SanMartin/index.htm

Tom Sobota
Madrid, Spain

Jack Fulton wrote:
> Jack,
> If you can send me contact info for this person I would appreciate that, 
> yes
> I did mean web site or publication.
>
>
> Scott:
>     I do not know Daria well at all. She was THE photogravure printer 
> for Crown Point Press and still is
> as far as I know. We met @ our 3rd street facility w/her knowing me more 
> than me knowing her. I hear
> from students, she really knows her stuff.
>     On the other hand, I know another man out here who is also very 
> good, as well as looking for a job.
> He is, I believe, perhaps from Puerto Rico, but I'm not sure of that 
> either. Anyway, he is a nice guy and obviously knows what he is doing 
> when it comes to photogravure. His name is Unai San Martin and he lives 
> here, where I do, in Marin.
>     If I can help you further, let me know.
>     And, oh, I think Daria's email is: dsyulak@sfai.edu
>
> Cheers
> Jack
>
>
>
>
> PR-203-1, Daria Swyulak
> Photogravure
> 3 Units
> Prerequisite: 3 units of printmaking
> coursework
> This class will provide students the opportunity
> to reproduce their photographic images onto
> copper plates so that they can be printed with
> oil–based ink on a high quality, archival rag
> paper. The technique is based on the original
> Carl Klic / Henry Fox Talbot photogravure
> process. Students will first learn how to enlarge
> their B&W negatives to produce traditional
> continuous–tone film positives in the darkroom,
> and later, also learn to produce digital positives
> in the lab. The positive will then be exposed
> onto gelatin that the students will sensitize
> themselves. It will then be adhered to a copper
> plate, aquatinted, step–etched in various
> Baumé’s of ferric chloride, and finally, inked,
> hand–wiped and run through a press as a fine art
> intaglio print. Adding other intaglio techniques
> to the image, such as drypoint, hardground,
> softground and spitbite aquatint, will be
> explored. There