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** This
Vintage 1972 Photogravure Comes Professionally Dry Mounted On Black 11 x 14 inch Acid Free Museum Mat
Board & Is Ready To Place In A Standard Size Frame.
Print Specifications:
Photographer: Tamotsu Yato (Japanese, 1928 - 1973) - renowned Japanese photographer of the male form.
Subject: Japanese male bodybuilder
Date Of Negative: Circa 1960's - 1971
Type Of Print: Vintage Sheet Fed Photogravure/Heliogravure.
Date Of Print: 1972 (49+ years old)
Printmaker/Engraver: Inshokan Engraving Co., Tokyo, Japan
Paper: Medium/heavyweight, matte finish
Print Origin: Japan
Approximate Image Size: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Mount Board Size: 11 x 14 inches
Mount Board Color: Black
Print Border: No - full bleed print.
Condition Grade: Fine ++
Verso: Professionally dry mounted with archival materials on 4ply museum mat board.
Registered Vintage Print Serial #: 48OT6TK7
Certificate Of Authenticity (COA): Yes - individual hand signed COA from Fine Photo Galleries.
Shipping: USPS with MUSEUM QUALITY ARCHIVAL PACKING
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Finephoto is pleased to offer an authentic (NOT a modern reprint) vintage 1972 photogravure by the renowned Japanese photographer Tamotsu Yato. Born
in 1928, Tamotsu Yato was a Japanese photographer responsible for
pioneering Japanese photography of the male form. He created iconic
black-and-white images of the Japanese male with his nude and semi nude
models being mostly amateur, unsophisticated countryside men. Yato
photographed his male nude and physique studies during the 1960's in
Japan. His work influenced many photographers of the male form
worldwide, both in his day and after. He was a close friend and
collaborator of the famous writer Yukio Mishima whom he also
photographed nude, as well as a long-term romantic partner of Meredith
Weatherby, an expatriate American publisher and translator of Mishima's
works into English. Tamotsu Yato died in 1973.
This quality sheet fed gravure plate was engraved and printed in two sided
gravure by the Inshokan Engraving Company in Tokyo, Japan in 1972. Condition is excellent for this 47+ year old plate.
This photogravure plate
is guaranteed to be authentic and comes with a hand signed CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICITY (COA) with unique individual registered
serial number from the Finephoto Vintage Archive & Database. Under
magnification this plate shows a tight "honeycomb" grid, uniform
pressing of ink and a wide range of tone - all indicative of a high
quality sheet fed gravure print. The watermark word "Finephoto" does not appear on the actual print.
READY FOR FRAMING & DISPLAY! - The expensive engraved copper plate photogravure process and the resulting fine
prints make vintage photogravures highly collectible and excellent
vintage prints for framing. Your
vintage print will arrive ready to be placed directly into a standard
size frame.
ABOUT PHOTOGRAVURE: Photogravure (or héliogravure)
is an intaglio printmaking process utilizing a carefully etched copper
plate made from the original negative/image. Prints are made by
pressing suitable paper heavily down upon the inked copper plate which
has been intricately etched to varying depths corresponding with the
actual tonality of the original negative, This precisely etched plate
combined with a fine "honeycomb" screen controls the amount of ink to
be transferred to the paper at any given point in direct proportion to
the variation of tone in the original image. The result is a true
continuous tone print which combines many qualities of a traditional
silver based photograph with a tactile feel similar to an etching,
engraving or lithograph.
Rich in tonal detail, the photogravure process produces delicately
rendered shades for a look which is unique in the world of photographic
print making. In the early to mid 1900's photogravure was selected
(when budgets allowed) for special high quality publishing and
portfolio projects, but due to its significant expense and labor, the
process is rarely seen today. From
Man Ray and Ruth Bernhard to Brett Weston and Ansel Adams, many of the
world's most renown photographic masters have published their images in
the rich photogravure process.
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