Robinson, Henry Peach
Photography studio photo’s 1888 | L’ atelier de photographe, Paris, Gauthiers-Villar bibliotheque Photographique, 1888, 146 pp. Illustrated complete copy.
Paper binding, Interior with severe foxing. Potrait of Henry Peach Robinson in the front. Translated by Hector Colard, member of the Belgium photographic association, from the English to the French. About how to build an atelier for photography, how to pose and how to arrange models, etc. Text in French.
Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901) was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing, an early example of photomontage. He engaged in contemporary debates in the photographic press and associations about the legitimacy of ‘art photography’ and in particular the combining of separate images into one. Photoshop avant la lettre. One of the earlies examples of photoshop collages. His most famous composite picture is “Fading Away” dated 1858.
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