Photogravure
Photogravure (also called heliogravure) is an intaglio printmaking technique. A photographic negative is transferred onto a copper plate using light sensitive chemicals. This is then printed like an etching.
Biography
Born
1852
Died
1934
Nationality
American
Birth place
Des Moines
Death place
New York City
Born in Iowa, Gertrude Käsebier, nee Stanton, married and had three children before training as a painter. Her interest in photography dates from about 1893 when she went to Germany to study chemistry. On her return to America she establishes a studio on Fifth Avenue, New York. In 1902 she became one of the founding members of the Photosecession Group alongside Alfred Stieglitz, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Clarence H White and others. They came to be known as the 'pictorialists'. Käsebier was the first woman to become a member of the 'Linked Ring', which was the British equivalent of this group.
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