Etching A Monster of Goya

Francisco de Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c1797.

In etching, pictures, lines or tones are engraved into a surface of a metal plate. The plate is inked and then wiped, leaving the grooves filled with ink and the surface clean. Then, lay blank paper over the plate, press both together. The pressure forces the paper takes up every pattern with its ink, and ta daa..., the picture in the plate moves into the paper. Pfuh, the intricate process with a minimum victory, the work that powerfully fine to capture black and white monsters. Maybe this is why we never found any etching work that has a stardom existence like paintings work.  But despite so, let’s fly to circa 1797, to the work of Francisco de Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de la razón produce monstrous). He is a painter and printmaker who realizes what kind of story would really fit with etching process, monsters. What if this monster idea transferred into a work of photography? Then see Italian Vogue June 2009 issue, photographed by Tim Walker, model: Malgosia.

Italian Vogue June 2009 issue, photographed by Tim Walker, model: Malgosia.