From: Eric S. Theise (mataro@cyberwerks.com)
Date: 09/10/02-10:45:58 AM Z
shannon stoney writes:
> What is a collotype in the alt-photo-process context? I thought it
> was a kind of relief print where you glue things onto board or paper
> to make a plate for inking.
That's collograph.
Collotype was a mass reproduction medium in the early part of the last
century; many postcards where printed that way. As to familiar images,
many of Muybridge's studies where printed as collotypes.
Fast forward to more modern times, Richard Hamilton used collotype in
combination with screen printing for a number of his prints in te 1980s.
It is an ink-on-paper method, but unlike photogravure which is an
etching/intaglio method, collotype is a planographic technique like
lithography and is usually printed on a litho press.
I haven't done it. I want to.
--Eric
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