Digital BW, The Print

While there continued to be some discussion about what a Giclee print is and
how the term came into being, below is a response that I received from Jack
Duganne.  We can agree that we make them based Jack’s intent as stated
below. As for all the other marketing pushes, etc this should help anyone
feel fine in making a coffee table book and calling the Giclee prints.
Harold was at Photokina when this topic came up. He may be getting back to
us. 

 

 

Hi Eric,

 

I coined the term Giclée back in 1989 and used it to describe a print for an
artist who was having her first show of ink jet prints done on an IRIS
printer.  She had asked for a term and I developed the word based upon the
French word for "nozzle", which is gicleur.  I 'created'  that word because
I thought that it should apply not only to just the IRIS prints, but also to
other prints done on other printers in the future of digital printmaking.  I
assumed that all printers would have to incorporate a nozzle in the printing
process for transferring the ink to the paper or substrate.  The word giclée
technically means "that which is sprayed by a nozzle".  I created the term
to be used specifically to separate fine art digital prints (or prints
determined to be fine art by the artist in that they intended to sign them)
from non-art digital prints.  That is much the way the word "serigraph" is
used to separate commercial non-art silk screen prints from those intended
to be art by the artists themselves.

 

Beyond that, there was no other intention or agenda offered nor claimed.
Copyright was not possible because it was a new generic term and as such was
available for all to use and employ.  It created a fire storm of
interpretation and meaning by others.  It is embedded in the global culture
and economy at this point and all other discussion is moot.  For better or
worse, it was a word and nothing more.  It had a beginning in the simple
attempt to describe what I thought might be a contribution to the great
lexicon  of printmaking nomenclature.  I have never deviated from that
original purpose.

 

Thanks,

 

Jack Duganne

 

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Jack Duganne - Duganne Ateliers
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Eric

 

 

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