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Re: Heliograph process



Niepce called his images heliographs. Perhaps she is using bitumen!! 
Another name up for grabs - scaigraphic drawing -  which is what Talbot 
first thought of but used photogenic drawings instead. 


Richard Morris


On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:07:39 -0400 Sam Wang <stwang@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Please excuse me if this has been gone over, but what is the 
> Heliograph printing process, as used by the Argentine photographer 
> Graciela Sacco? I thought it was the name of photography groups in 
> history, but did not know it as an early printing process (didn't 
> Jerry Uelsmann belong to the New Heliographers in the early 60's?).
> 
> Please email me if this has been discussed. Thanks.
> 
> Sam Wang
> PS:  I love the idea of telling someone, "Excuse me but I gotta go 
> heliograph some important images now."

Richard Morris
Brunel University, UK
richard.morris@brunel.ac.uk