Cliche Verre

In my Alternative Process Class our project was to make a cliche Verre. Below is some history of cliche verre from [www.silverprint.co.uk] who knows their junk about old processes like this.

"Cliche-verre means literally 'glass picture'. It is also known as glass etching or hyalography (back to the old business of dredging the Greek and Latin dictionaries for fancy names - in this case the Greek word for glass). The method was used regularly to good effect by the French painters Corot and Millet. It is essentially a hand drawn negative and as such is difficult for historians and students of old processes to categorise. Perhaps it illustrates the currently held view that the artist's ideas are more important than the medium through which they are expressed."

Above are some examples of my cliche verres. What I used was acrylic paint on frame glass. I waited for the paint to partially dry and then imprinted my face, hand, and ear. All of these pictures were contact printed from paper negatives onto fiber paper.