Lithography
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- "Just as lithography virtually implied the illustrated newspaper, so did photography foreshadow the sound film. For the first time in the process of pictorial reproduction, photography freed the hand of the most important artistic functions which henceforth devolved only upon the eye looking into a lens." --Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935) - Walter Benjamin
The process of printing a lithograph on a hard, flat surface. Invented by Bavarian author Alois Senefelder in 1796. Originally the printing surface was a flat piece of stone that was etched with acid to form a surface that would selectively transfer ink to the paper; the stone has now been replaced, in general, with a metal plate.
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