1906 Vintage CHINA TSINAN Lake Village Mountain Landscape Photo Art BOERSCHMAN

 

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Print Specifications:
Photographer:  Ernst Boerschmann (Germany, 1873 - 1949) - German architect, historian and photographer who dedicated his professional life to the study of China. In 1906 Boerschmann undertook a 3 year photographic expedition through China documenting the architecture, landscape, culture & inhabitants of this fascinating land. 
Title: "Lake of the Great Light in Tsinanfu and Mount of the 1000 Buddhas"   
Subject:  China
Date Of Negative:  1906 - 1909
Type Of Print:  Authentic Vintage Sheet Fed Photogravure/Héliogravure.
Date Of Print:  1923 (98+ year old print)
Paper:  Medium weight, satin finish.
Print Origin:  Germany
Print/Plate Maker:  Art Institutes Of Rotophot A.G., Berlin, Germany.
Approximate Size Inches:   6.25  x  8.75 inches
Mount Board Size:  11 x 14 inches
Condition Grade:  Very Fine ++ 
Verso:  Professionally dry mounted with archival materials on 4ply museum mat board. 
Registered Vintage Print Serial #: 052KCB2
Certificate Of Authenticity (COA):  Yes - individual hand signed COA
Shipping:  USPS with MUSEUM QUALITY ARCHIVAL PACKING
This is an authentic (NOT a modern reprint) vintage 1923 photogravure (also known as Héliogravure) by the German architect, historian and photographer Ernst Boerschmann. In 1906 with backing from the German government, Boerschmann began what would be a three-year project, during which time he travelled to over sixteen cities and provinces in China. During his extensive travels in the Qing Empire over a century ago, Boerschmann artistically chronicled, a world of buildings, landscapes and sights with an exacting eye, subtlety and unique grace. His photographs of this amazing land and it's inhabitants stands as a historically important record of a time and life now long gone. Many of the buildings and monuments he photographed are no longer in existence and of the ones that remain almost all have been changed by time and the impact of events during the last 100+ years. Today Ernst Boerschmann's work is held in museums and important collections throughout the world. 

This vintage photogravure plate is guaranteed to be authentic and comes with a hand signed CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY (COA) with unique individual registered serial number from the Finephoto Vintage Archive & Database. Under magnification this plate shows a tight "honeycomb" cell structure, uniform pressing of ink and a wide range of tone - all indicative of a high quality sheet fed gravure print. The watermark word "Finephoto" does not appear on the actual print. 

READY FOR FRAMING & DISPLAY! - The expensive engraved copper plate photogravure process and the resulting fine prints make vintage photogravures highly collectible and excellent vintage prints for framing. Your vintage print will arrive ready to be placed directly into a standard size frame. 

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ABOUT PHOTOGRAVURE:  Photogravure (or heliogravure) is an intaglio print making process utilizing a carefully etched copper plate made from the original negative/image. Prints are made by pressing suitable paper heavily down upon the inked copper plate which has been intricately etched to varying depths corresponding with the actual tonality of the original negative, This precisely etched plate combined with a fine "honeycomb" screen controls the amount of ink to be transferred to the paper at any given point in direct proportion to the variation of tone in the original image. The result is a true continuous tone print which combines many qualities of a traditional silver based photograph with a tactile feel similar to an etching, engraving or lithograph. Rich in tonal detail, the photogravure process produces delicately rendered shades for a look which is unique in the world of photographic print making. In the early to mid 1900's photogravure was selected (when budgets allowed) for special high quality publishing and portfolio projects, but due to it's significant expense and labor, the process is rarely seen today. From Man Ray and Ruth Bernhard to Brett Weston and Ansel Adams, many of the world's most renowned photographic masters have published their images in the rich photogravure process.

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