The blackprint edition shop sells rare and unique black and white photographs in limited first editions and small edition size.
Exclusive editions from original antique photograph plates and artworks developed with contemporary artists. Start building your collection now.
The origin of blackprint edition comes from the founders desire to show the original antique photographs on glass from 1860 to 1910 from their own private collection. Keeping always in mind an artistic approach to printing and in this case an anachronistic too, through the use of formats and papers that did not exist at the time.
We print the Limited Editions on very selected and rare art paper from Switzerland to Japan. Each copie is numbered and comes with a certificate.
We choose our subjects on terms of quality and uniqueness. Each of our antique glass plates is printed with the least digital corrections maintaining traces of age physically and chemically.
The whole process up to the final edition available online is carried out and printed by blackprint. From the acquisition of the original plate, the research, the digitalisation in very high quality, the choice of the tonality and the paper, as well as the packaging and sometimes the frame design.
In November 2018 blackprint edition has launched its collaborations with international contemporary photographers and emerging artists called “artist edition”.
Each final artwork choosen by blackprint edition has been developed exclusively with the artist. It can often takes several months, somtimes years, between tests, research and modifications before it finds its way to art lovers and collectors.
All the blackprint editions are printed in the blackprint Piezography® Pro printing studio in Zürich. The packaging, product design, and some framing are also designed by blackprint. The graphics design are created by Jacques Borel.
The edition collection. All blackprint editions are exclusive limited first editions, numbered and signed by the artists.
Each unique piece is printed on exceptional paper and produced down to the last detail.
Karo edition
The Karo editions papersize is 30 × 30 cm (11.8 × 11.8″). Each print is numbered and delivered in a vinyl style packaging with a window protected by a clear cover made of recycled polymers. Acid-free and biodegradable. Each topic is chosen from our original glass plate collection.
Karo collectors edition
Comes in a black, matt vinyl style packaging and is printed on very exclusive paper from Switzerland, Japan and India. Each piece is numbered and comes with a certificate.
Each karo can be purchased framed or unframed.
Private collection
We print our Private collection on very selected and rare artpaper like Cartalafranca (CH), AIJP Awagami Editioning (JP) or very rare traditional washi (JP). Each piece is numbered and comes with a certificate.
We chose our subjects on terms of quality and uniqueness. Each of our antique glass plates is printed with the least digital corrections maintaining traces of age physically and chemically.
Artist edition
In November 2018, blackprint edition launched its collaborations with international contemporary photographers and emerging artists.
The “artist edition” is dedicated to the contemporary photographers and artists. In a collaboration we transform selected art pieces into limited and collectable editions.
Each exclusive artwork chosen by blackprint edition is developed with the artist. As with all our blackprint editions we choose the paper very carefully for our artist editions and we make and take care of the design of every detail of the artwork.
The artist edition does not exceed the number of 7 copies and 2 AP for over CHF 1000.- and 60 copies of artwork under CHF 500.–