This workshop aims to explore through practice the relationship between photography and the three main families of printing techniques: planographic (lithography and its derivatives), permeographic (of which screen printing is the most prominent) and typographic and intaglio (those involving engraving techniques).
→ 19, 21, 26, 28 April and 3 May. Total 20h
→ Tuesday and Thursday, 4 pm to 8 pm
→ Onsite (EINA Bosc)
→ 300 €
We capture images constantly and with all kinds of devices, but the tendency is - increasingly - for them to be fluid, ephemeral and immaterial. Providing images with materiality, making them tangible, multiplying them, altering them and transporting them to different media can be a way of reaffirming their existence and our authorship and control over them.
Since their discovery, photographic processes have been linked to various printing techniques. In fact, Nicéphore Niépce, who was a lithographer, experimented on stone before succeeding in fixing his first images on metal; the aim was not only to fix the images but also to be able to reproduce them, which implies the manufacture of a matrix that can be transferred in one way or another on various supports, as is the case with most printing techniques.
Throughout the course, you will be able to use the new EINA Bosc workshops, fully equipped and with technical advice. This will allow you to further explore printing techniques based on photographic images beyond the course classes.
Professionals and students in the artistic and creative field such as design, illustration, photography, etc. Or anyone interested in the contents of the course who wants to get started in this field. No previous knowledge of photography or printing is required.
- Experiment with the different printing processes involving photosensitive materials.
- Reflect on the main axes governing the relationship between transfer, reproducibility and photography.
- Know and differentiate the possibilities of the main printing techniques in relation to photography.
- To speculate and discover ways of personal expression while applying the advantages of digital and analogue techniques and to be able to manage small editions of the results obtained.
Tuesday 19.04 from 4 pm to 8 pm
The basic principles: photosensitivity and report
Cyanotype and Transfer
Thursday 21.04 from 4 pm to 8 pm
Reproducibility
Photolithography
Plate/stone transfer
Tuesday 26.04 from 4 pm to 8 pm
The photolithograph and the halftone matrix
Screen printing with emulsions and photosensitive films
Thursday 28.04 from 4 pm to 8 pm
Focusing. The application of screens
Photoengraving (relief and vacuum). Photopolymer, films and emulsions
Poor man's photoengraving
Tuesday 03.05 from 4 pm to 8 pm
Cross-applications and various experimentations
Registration closed.
- Email: cursos(a)eina.cat
- Telephone: 93 203 09 23