Nudes - Photogravures and Other Processes

This month we are featuring the work of British photographer John Everard. John Everard was a First World War veteran (he was awarded the Military Cross) who became a portrait, fashion, stage and studio photographer. Everard was self taught and became a noted photographer of nudes from the late 1920s until the early 1960s. Also featured is an extensive collection of nudes from Beaute et Verite, circa 1960. Many other European photographers work is represented. WARNING: IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY THE NUDE BODY DO NOT VIEW THIS AUCTION! These are not photographs, but either photogravures, or other types of photo-mechanical processes. Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio plate that can reproduce detailed continuous tones of a photograph. Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous-tone imagery through the use of dots, varying either in size or in spacing, thus generating a gradient-like effect. Offset lithography is a printing process that involves transferring an image to an intermediate surface before printing it onto the final sheet.