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Collotype

Collotype is a gelatin-based photographic printing process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 to print images in a wide variety of tones without the need for halftone screens. The majority of collotypes were produced between the 1870s and 1920s. It was the first form of photolithography.

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Collotype

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related to External sources · 22
Collotype → Analytical Signatures, Art Kaplan, Atlas, Benrido Press, Defibaugh, Denis, Dusan, Getty Conservation Institute, History, Japan, Kyoto, MA Thesis, NY, Photographic Documentation, Photographic Processes, Process, Rochester, Rochester Institute, Stulik, Technology
related to Famous works · 14
Collotype → After, Animal Movements, Box, Connective Phases, Eadward Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, Electro-Photographic Investigation, Gerhard Richter's Mao, Le Tricorne, Mao Zedong, Marcel Duchamp's La Boîte-en-valise, Natural History, Pablo Picasso's, Suitcase, Surrealist Max Ernst
related to Historical use · 14
Collotype → Alfred Stieglitz, Best, Bristol, China, It, Its, Joseph Albert, Many, Shenzhou Guoguang, Short, The, United States, While, Youzheng
related to 1860s developments · 10
Collotype → Edward Bierstadt, However, In, Jakub Husník, Joseph Albert, Marechal, Motay, New York City, Tessie, This
related to Later collotype · 10
Collotype → Alethetype, Celsius, Gelatinotypy, Related, Roto-Collotype, Rye's, Sinop, The, Then, UV
related to Commercial · 9
Collotype → As, Florence, Fratelli Alinari, In Europe, Japan, Kyoto, Leipzig, Lichtdruck-Kunst, United States
related to Invention · 4
Collotype → Ferdinand Joubert, Greek, Poitevin, The
related to Multicolored collotypes · 4
Collotype → Franz Marc, Gazelle, Lobby, Mary Pickford
related to Characteristics · 3
Collotype → In, This, Under
related to Color collotype or chromocollotype · 3
Collotype → Hoeschtype, In, Joseph Albert

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process gelatin ink print printing plate applied printed photographic collotypes first commercial black color processes halftone later monochrome stone developed

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Collotypeis agelatin-based photographic printing process invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 to print images in a wide variety of tones without the need for halftone screens0.90text
Collotypeis ahand-printed process0.90text
Bristolinstance ofBest results are achieved with hard finished paper0.80text
placed upon the plateinstance ofBest results are achieved with hard finished paper0.80text
covered with a tympan before slight pressure is appliedinstance ofBest results are achieved with hard finished paper0.80text
Collotyperelated to 1860s developmentsIn0.60section
Collotyperelated to 1860s developmentsTessie0.60section
Collotyperelated to 1860s developmentsMotay0.60section
Collotyperelated to 1860s developmentsMarechal0.60section
Collotyperelated to 1860s developmentsHowever0.60section
Collotyperelated to 1860s developmentsJoseph Albert0.60section
Collotyperelated to 1860s developmentsJakub Husník0.60section

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