Florida Museum of Photographic Arts

Technology Into Art:

The Photogravure From 1850 to Today

November 11 through January 28, 2007

Opening Reception for Members and Invited Guests,
November 10 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm

One of the highlights of this sixth season of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is “Technology into Art: The Photogravure from 1850 to Today.” This landmark exhibition has been organized for the museum by the University of South Florida’s Institute for Research in Art and the USF Contemporary Art Museum. Sponsored by the Ferman Motor Car Company, the exhibition opens November 10, 2006 and runs through January 28, 2007.

Edward S.Curtis "The Oath" - Apsaroke,
From the Prospectus of the North American Indian, 1906.
Image Courtesy of the Drapkin Collection

Photogravure, a hybrid of printmaking and photography, is a key process in the history of photography. Both a fine art and
a mass media form, it helped popularize the photographic image in the 1800s through reproductions in books and newspapers.

Graciela Iturbide "Mujer/Angel" 1986 Image courtesy of Graphicstudio/USF The beauty of photogravure attracted such early art stars as Alfred Stieglitz, who published his pioneering photographic journal, Camera Work, starting in 1903. In the nineteenth century, Edward S. Curtis embarked upon a project to record the cultures of the Native American nations before they were forever altered.
Edward S. Curtis Navaho Medicine-Man, from the Prospectus of the North American Indian, 1906 Photogravure, 8 1/2 x 6 inches. Image courtesy of The Drapkin Collection

		Robert Mapplethorpe "Tampa Orchid" 1986 ©Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Courtesy of Graphicstudio/USF
		In recent years, such major artists as Chuck Close, Graciela Iturbide, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Mapplethorpe have come to USF’s famous fine-art print-making operation, Graphicstudio, to exper-iment with the rich qualities of photogra-vure.
		Robert Rauschenberg "China Mix-21, Unlitled", 1983 Photogravure on Paper: Image 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 One of a suite of twenty-one: Collection of Deli Sacilotto: Courtesy of Graphicstudio/USF This exhibition was organized by the USF Institute for Research in Art/Graphicstudio and the Contemporary Art Museum

On November 12, the curators of the exhibition, Deli Sacilotto (below, left) and Noel Smith (bottom, left) lectured on photogravure at the museum. To listen to or download the lectures, visit our Podcast page.
	Deli Sacilotto, a world-recognized printmaking expert, is Graphicstudio’s Emeritus Director of Research and was honored in October by USF for his huge contributions to Graphicstudio.
	NoelSmith is Curator of Education and of Latin American and Caribbean Art at Graphicstudio.

Show Sponsor: Ferman Automotive Group

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