Cliché verre

Cliché Verre is a combination of art and photography. In brief, it is a method of either etching, painting or drawing on a transparent surface, such as glass, thin paper or film and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper in a photographic darkroom. It is a process first practiced by a number of French painters during the early 19th century. The French landscape painter Camille Corot was the best known of these. Some contemporary artists have developed techniques for achieving a variety of line, tone, texture and color by experimenting with film, frosted Mylar, paint and inks and a wide assortment of tools for painting, etching, scratching, rubbing and daubing.

Cliché Verre is French. Cliché is a printing term: a printing plate cast from movable type; while verre means glass.

Cliché Verre was one of the earliest forms of reproducing images before the advent of the camera. As a precursor to photography, Cliché Verre could accurately represent the original scene without the tonal variations available in modern day photography.

External links

• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/121455/cliche-verre
• http://www.photography.com/articles/history/cliche-verre/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14bald.html
• http://www.silverprint.co.uk/info/sos27.html