MetaFilter posts tagged with etching

In the land of the Old Masters, the multimedia technician is increasingly king.

adamvasco — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:37:02 -0800

Factum Arte in Madrid has made an animation film based on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Carceri d'Invenzione prints; and have also built many of his pieces which shows the workings of his imagination, merging his architectural ambitions with his obsessive interest in antiquity. Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a source of inspiration for, among others, Goya, Poe, Escher, Max Ernst, De Chirico. A Contamination of taste - The 3D modelling of a fireplace
Behind Historic Preservation, a Surreal History.

A world in glorious black and white.

arse_hat — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:55:08 -0800

Peter Milton's etching and engraving work takes on the detailed nuance of fine B&W silver prints. Peter is colour blind.

Glyphs...in...spaaaaaaace!

googly — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:40:35 -0800

What 13,500 pages micro-etched into nickel looks like. The Long Now Blog presents some fantastic photos of the data side of the Rosetta Disk, which archives more than 1500 languages on 13000+ pages. Bit of eye strain? No problem: the Rosetta Project offers an interactive version that allows you to browse the text. [previously]

And you'll find that you're ... in the rotogravure ...

woodblock100 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:54:34 -0800

"More than just a printmaking technique, photogravure etching is also a way of exploring the world that brings to light an incomparable variety of tone and texture: shimmering luminous highlights, deep multi-hued blacks, shadows within shadows, and the most subtle gradations of tone." The photogravure etchings of printmaker Peter Miller peacefully await your attention. Peter started out depicting scenes of 'quaint Japan' near his home in Kamakura Japan, but these days - exactly ten years after opening his website - he is working at a much wider scale, creating images from around the world. It's a bit pointless to try and pick more than a couple of examples to show you, so just start with his Viewing page, and browse around at random.

It's stunning work, and when you read his description of the process, hard to believe that anybody could still be doing this today. (Note: it's a bilingual website, and if you don't have asian fonts installed, you'll see some gobbledygook here and there on the pages, but the English explanations, and the images, will be understandable.)