Vintage Print: VP739192
Bruce Weber
1989 Vintage Bruce Weber Male Model Christian Nude Stretching Photo Art 12x15
Print Method: Photogravure
(Heliogravure, sheet fed photogravure, lithograph)
Color / B&W: Black & White
Print Year: 1990
Origin: USA
Orientation: Portrait
Image Height: 9.29 ins.
Image Width: 7.32 ins.
(New) Mount & Mat Board: 100% Cotton, Acid Free, Museum Grade Mount Board.
Mount Height: 15.0 ins.
Mount Width: 12.0 ins.
Standard Frame: 12 by 15
Frame Ready
The mount size for print VP739192 is a standard frame size 12.0 ins wide x 15.0 ins high, which allows you to save money on expensive, custom framing. Please note: this print is also fully matted, making it genuinely frame ready (Although we cannot change the size of the print, if you prefer a different size mount to fit a particular frame size, please contact us before ordering. No charge). The mount and mat are brand new.
Artist: Bruce Weber
BIO
Born: Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA, 1946
Holdenluntz
" ... His photographs are in the permanent collections of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Weber has exhibited at venues including the 1987 Whitney Biennial in New York City, Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, the Florence Biennale, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Russell Senate Building in Washington, DC ... "
Wikipedia
" ... He came to the attention of the general public in the late 1980s and early 1990s with his advertising images for Calvin Klein, and his portrait of the then young actor Richard Gere. His straightforward black-and-white shots, featuring an unclothed heterosexual couple on a swing facing each other, two clothed men in bed, and model Marcus Schenkenberg barely holding jeans in front of himself in a shower, catapulted him into the national spotlight. His photograph for Calvin Klein of Olympic athlete Tom Hintnaus in white briefs is an iconic image. He photographed the winter 2006 Ralph Lauren Collection ... "
Famous Photographers
" ... In the 1980s, Weber collaborated with Chris Isaak to take his picture for his album. In 1988, he photographed Isaak shirtless in bed for a fashion page in the magazine Rolling Stone. Weber was also the director of one of the Isaak’s music videos called Blue Spanish Sky ... "
All About Photo
" ... After doing photo shoots for and of famous people (many of whom were featured in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine), Weber made short films of teenage boxers (Broken Noses), his beloved pet dogs, and later, a longer film entitled Chop Suey. He directed Let's Get Lost, a 1988 documentary about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. ... "
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Photogravure Process
Photogravure Etching Process (Conservation Wiki)
" ... A copper plate is dusted with resin powder, then the plate is heated to melt the resin, creating aquatint grain pattern. A thin tissue is coated with gelatin, then sensitized with dichromate. When this tissue is exposed to light in contact with a positive image, gelatin in the area that receives more light (highlights) becomes more insoluble to water copper plate by pressing the gelatin side of the tissue against the plate. The plate is, then washed with warm water to remove soluble gelatin, leaving a thicker layer in highlights and the area with thicker layer. The rest is identical to any intaglio printing process. The plate is inked, depositing more ink in the deeply etched areas and less in shallowly etched areas, thus creating tonal range, then printed on paper as positive image ... "
Photogravure Quality (Wikipedia)
" ... Photogravure registers a wide variety of tones, through the transfer of etching ink from an etched copper plate to special dampened paper run through an etching press. The unique tonal range comes from photogravure's variable depth of etch, that is, the shadows are etched many times deeper than the highlights. Unlike half-tone processes which vary the size of dot, the depth of ink wells is varied in a photogravure plate. The human eye resolves these fine variations into a continuous tone image ... "
Collector Info
Authenticity
Vintage Print: VP739192 is a genuine, original Photogravure print. It is not a modern copy of any kind nor a digital reprint. It is an authentic vintage print made in 1990.
Rear Mounted Label
The print mount comes with a label fixed to the reverse side of the archival mount-board. The label contains the information needed to confirm the authenticity of the print.
There is a QR code on the label which you can scan to go directly to your database page without having to enter the vintage id.
The label has a tamper proof, security hologram with a Security ID. The Security ID on the hologram matches the Security ID on the label.
Certificate of Authenticity
Vintage Print: VP739192 comes with a signed letter certifying its authenticity.
The letter also contains a copy of the label from the back of the print mount (see above) and a matching tamper proof, security hologram with matching Security ID.
Tamper Proof Hologram
The matching, tamper proof security holograms on the letter of authenticity and the rear mounted label hold the Security ID confirming the authenticity of this collector piece.
Watermark
The VPP watermark in the Ebay Listing is not on the original print and has been added digitally to the listing photo to prevent copying.