{"id":27,"date":"2006-09-20T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T02:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:37:27","slug":"prints-and-visual-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Prints and Visual Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0262590026\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0262590026&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=readingwith0a-20&#038;linkId=c6a860280c55b6f04f0e66926ca12efc\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81PYJ5T1PwL._SL1500_-150x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81PYJ5T1PwL._SL1500_-150x237.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81PYJ5T1PwL._SL1500_-649x1024.jpg 649w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81PYJ5T1PwL._SL1500_-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81PYJ5T1PwL._SL1500_-768x1213.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81PYJ5T1PwL._SL1500_.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>William Ivins (1969)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The sophistication of the photographic process has had two dramatic results&#8211;freeing the artist from the confines of journalistic reproductions and freeing the scientist from the unavoidable imprecision of the artist&#8217;s prints. So released, both have prospered and produced their impressive nineteenth- and twentieth-century outputs. It is this premise that William M. Ivins, Jr., elaborates in Prints and Visual Communication, a history of printmaking from the crudest wood block, through engraving and lithography, to Talbot&#8217;s discovery of the negative-positive photographic process and its far reaching consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Ivins (1969) The sophistication of the photographic process has had two dramatic results&#8211;freeing the artist from the confines of journalistic reproductions and freeing the scientist from the unavoidable imprecision of the artist&#8217;s prints. So released, both have prospered and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=27\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,11,31,23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-media","category-photography","category-printmaking","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}