Copy That - the revolution in photo-mechanical printing
Lancaster's celebration of the life of Karel Klic, organized by Mirador Arts
- Year
- 2026
- Dates
- 13 - 28 November 2026
- Venue
- The Storey, Lancaster
- Type
- Liaison
As the co-author, with Harry Magee, of KLIC: Life Art Invention, and as a printmaker practising photogravure, I was invited to contribute to this show. As a photo-historian and Klic enthusiast I have collected a number of items while researching his life which are on loan to the exhibition, generally items created by Klic, or printed using technology which he invented.
The new piece of work below endeavours to illustrate one of Klic's major contributions to gravure printing, the halftone screen he developed for rotogravure to allow mechanical wiping of the rotary printing matrix. Also see the Story of the Print for Troon 2024
The print is being shown along side an earlier piece, a traditional copperplate photogravure created back in 2004 to explain the copperplate photogravure process, specifically the use of a carbon tissue photographic-transfer, in conjunction with an aquatint when making the plate.
Also see The Story of the Print for Sea/White Horses
