Jon Cone

Jon began his printmaking career as a photographer who could not resist alternative photo-process and was drawn into printmaking. He studied photography with Arnold Gassan and printmaking with Mary Manusos at Ohio University. As a Master Printer, he has printed serigraphy, intaglio, monoprint, relief and aquatint-photogravure. He is recognized as the first digital explorer of contemporary collaborative printmaking producing digital prints for painters and photographers as early as 1984. He has been an early advocate of digital photography and commemorated his first shoots at Big Sur and Point Reyes with a 480 x 640 pixel camera, the same resolution used by the Viking Lander on Mars in 1975.

Jon is the developer of Piezography inks and software. He acknowledged his teacher Gassan by modeling Piezography Selenium inks after a Gassan provided short bath selenium toned fiber print shortly before Gassan’s passing. Cone has printed for notable photographers such as Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks and most recently produced the enormous 8 x 14 foot prints for Gregory Colbert’s monumental Ashes and Snow exhibitions. For his own photography, Cone prefers the intimacy of small images.