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Hacking the Digital Print: Alternative image capture and printmaking processes with a special section on 3D printing
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Hacking the Digital Print: Alternative image capture and printmaking processes with a special section on 3D printing

by Bonny Pierce Lhotka
February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
9h 40m
English
New Riders
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12. Image Transfer to Glass

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Glass has a weight and depth, both physical and visual, that makes it a unique medium for sharing images. Paper may be beautiful, yet embodies flatness—it’s inherently a two-dimensional surface. Glass, on the other hand, brings an immediate sense of distance and perspective. Historically, glass has been used for photography with processes like the daguerreotype, ambrotype, and collodion, and in the late 1800s glass negatives were even used to make prints. Many of those images were not stored properly. Now when they’re found in great-grandma’s attic, they generally show the ravages of time and poor storage conditions—a ...

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