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benday

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Ben Day also ben·day or Ben·day  (bn-d)
n.
A method of adding a tone to a printed image by imposing a transparent sheet of dots or other patterns on the image at some stage of a photographic reproduction process.

[After Benjamin Henry Day.]
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Verb1.benday - reproduce by the Benday process
engrave, etch - carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter"


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Recently, he has been communing with Sigmar Polke and Albrecht Durer, appropriating benday dots from the former and images from the latter's engravings.
A multi-coloured Benday dot pattern (based on a photograph of a cloudy sky) is imprinted on the glass roof panels, giving the surface an almost textile-like quality as light dapples and filters through different layers of colour and glass.
The dust jacket is a montage of the artist sitting in one of his own paintings; the first two pages are decorated with Benday dots; the verso of the title page is part of a double-page spread depicting the artist at work in his studio; examples of his work are skillfully integrated into the text.
 
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