Nudes - Photogravures and Other Processes

This month we are featuring the work of French photographer George Louis Arlaud. He was known for his outdoor nude studies photographed in the South of France where he lived from 1942. Arlaud was assassinated the day after his town was liberated in 1944. We are also featuring the work of Japanese photographer Masaya Nakamura. Plus a large group of German Lithographic nudes by Kunstanstalt H. Gass, tipped onto large sheets 15.75 x 11.75 in. Many European photographers work is represented including Stanislaus Walery and Andre de Dienes. 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.