La trinchera

Date: 1961

Medium: Cliché verre (engraved on film stock and printed photographically)

Dimensions (cm.): 33.0 x 60.1

Variants: Some impressions are printed in reverse.

Alternate titles: Trinchera; Revolucionarios disparando tras la trinchera

Published edition: Unknown

Contemporary publication: Unknown

References: Exposición de Homenaje 281

Cataloging note: The method by which this image was printed is not fully understood. Although sometimes described as a linocut, Méndez actually created the image by scratching it on photographic film (perhaps a sheet of x-ray film) using a technique known by the French term cliché verre. Known impressions appear to have been printed photographically on light-sensitive paper directly from the film matrix; others may have been printed by a photomechanical process, perhaps by transfering the film image to a metal lithographic plate. Because the areas of light and dark in the impressions match those of the original film sheet, it would appear that  a reversal process (positive to positive) was used.

Catalogue record number: 421