HEINRICH KUHN, \"Playmates\" 1908 Tipped-in Halftone from an Autochrome, 1908 For Sale

Up for sale is a rare antique original Tipped-in Halftone from and Autochrome dating from 1908 by Austrian-German photographer Heinrich Kuhn. This study titled \"Playmates\" is from \"The Studio - Colour Photography and other Recent Developments of the Art of the Camera\" a British companion along with \"Art in Photography\", to Camera Work, the important American photo secessionist magazine published by Alfred Stieglitz. These original halftones and photogravures and autochromes are becoming exceedingly scarce and collectible, and the quality does not disappoint. Measures Sheet Dimensions 11\" x 7 3/4.\" 100% guaranteed vintage and original.Please be aware, There is No Such Thing as a Halftone Photogravure. It is either one or the other.All my sales will all be identified correctly as to which medium the item is.

Heinrich Kuhn
1886 – 1944)

Heinrich Kühn is regarded one of the forefathers of fine artphotography, the movement that helped photography to establish itself as an arton its own. His photographs closely resemble impressionist paintings, withtheir frequent use of soft lighting and focus. Kühn was part of thepictorialist photographic movement.

Kühn mainly used the gum bichromate technique, applied inseveral layers, and thus allowing for previously unseen color tonalities.

In 1911, Kühn invented the Gummigravüre technique, acombination of photogravure and Gum bichromate. In 1915 he developed theLeimdruck technique, which uses Animal glue as Colloid and produces picturessimilar to gum prints. He also invented the Syngraphie, a forgotten techniquethat uses two negatives of different sensitivity to obtain a larger tonalspectrum.

Kühn used Autochrome from its appearance in 1907. HisAutochromes have been called \"ethereal dreams of childhood, full ofvaulted sunny skies and giddy perspectives, as gloriously cathartic as they areemotionally charged\"

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