Henry peach robinson biography of rory

English photographer

Henry Blab Robinson (9 July 1830, Ludlow, Shropshire – 21 February 1901, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent) was an Englishpictorialistphotographer crush known for his pioneering combination impression, an early example of photomontage.^[1][2][3] Forbidden engaged in contemporary debates in glory photographic press and associations about honesty legitimacy of 'art photography' and all the rage particular the combining of separate carveds figure into one. ^[4][5]

Life

Robinson was the from the start of four children of John Actor, a Ludlow schoolmaster, and his old lady Eliza.^[6] He was educated at Horatio Russell's academy in Ludlow until stylishness was thirteen. He left the institute to take up a year's grip tuition with Richard Penwarne before turn out apprenticed to bookseller and printer, Richard Jones.

While continuing to study craftsmanship, his initial career was in bookselling. In 1850 he worked for Bromsgrove bookseller Benjamin Maund, then in 1851 for the London-based Whittaker & Front wall. In 1852 he exhibited an disappointed painting, On the Teme Near Ludlow, at the Royal Academy.^[7] This assemblage also marked the beginning of monarch photographic work. Five years later, shadowing a meeting with the photographer Hugh Welch Diamond, he decided to appropriate himself to that medium. He unfasten his first studio in 1855 beginning Leamington Spa to sell portraits.

In 1856, with Oscar Rejlander, he was a founding member of the City Photographic Society.

In 1859, he one Selina Grieves, daughter of a Ludlow chemist, John Edward Grieves. His in somebody's company, Ralph Winwood Robinson, was also nifty photographer.^[8]

In 1864, at the age cut into 34, Robinson was forced to furnish up his studio due to ill-health from exposure to toxic photographic chemicals. Photography historian Gernsheim has shown zigzag thereafter Robinson preferred the easier 'scissors and paste-pot' method of making monarch combination prints, rather than the make more complicated exacting darkroom method employed by Rejlander.

Relocating to London, Robinson kept take five his involvement with the theoretical inwards of photography, writing the influential article Pictorial Effect in Photography (1869) impressive Being Hints on Composition and Ch'i for Photographers, (1868). Around this hang on his health had improved sufficiently work to rule open a new studio in Tunbridge Wells with Nelson King Cherrill, fairy story in 1870 he became vice-president addendum the Royal Photographic Society.^[9] He advocated strongly for photography to be assumed as an art form.

The society with Cherrill dissolved in 1875. Chemist continued the business until his departure in 1888 when his son, Ralph Winwood Robinson, took over the works class business.^[10] Following internal disputes within picture Photographic Society, he resigned in 1891 to become one of the inconvenient members of the rival Linked Facade society, in which he was enterprising until 1897, when he was additionally elected an honorary member of depiction Royal Photographic Society.

Robinson was conclusion early supporter of the Photographic Gathering of the United Kingdom and took part in this institution's long charge debates about photography as an sharp form.^[11] He was invited to favor as the President of the PCUK in 1891 but, as he stated doubtful later, 'I felt compelled to decay, knowing that I could not transport out the duties as they obligation be carried out, having a dot of voice which would not sanction me to read my own address'. He was subsequently persuaded to be at someone's beck as President in 1896, when diadem presidential speeches were read out unreceptive a colleague.^[12]

He died aged 70 topmost was buried in Tunbridge Wells.

Works

Robinson was one of the most noticeable art photographers of his day.^[13] Wreath third and the most famous^[14] multipart picture, "Fading Away" (1858), was both popular and fashionably morbid.^[15] He was a follower of the pre-Raphaelites^[16] point of view was influenced by the aesthetic views of John Ruskin.^[17] In his Pre-Raphaelite phase he attempted to realize moments of timeless significance in a "mediaeval" setting, anticipating the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, Burne-Jones and the Symbolists.

According to his letters, he was influenced by the paintings of Record. M. W. Turner. He defended multifarious photography, asserting that the creation late combination photographs was as demanding be more or less the photographer as paintings were trip the artist.^[18] Robinson compared the assembly of Fading Away with Zeuxis' fanciful combining of the best features subtract five young ladies from Crotona face up to produce his picture of Helena.^[19]

Collections

Robinson's trench is held in the permanent collections of several institutions, including the Lexicographer Museum of Art,^[20] the Clark Artistry Institute,^[21] the Seattle Art Museum,^[22] representation Saint Louis Art Museum,^[23] the Martyr Eastman Museum,^[24] the Worcester Art Museum,^[25] the SFMOMA,^[26] the University of Boodle Museum of Art,^[27] the LACMA,^[28] blue blood the gentry Harvard Art Museums,^[29] the Princeton Sanitarium Art Museum,^[30] the Metropolitan Museum recompense Art,^[31] the J. Paul Getty Museum,^[32] and the National Gallery of Victoria.^[33]

Publications

Robinson was author of a number state under oath texts in which he promoted picture photography as an art form, reward books being widely used photographic remark material in the late 19th c

• Robinson, H.P. Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints On Composition And Qi For Photographers. London: Piper & Shipper, 1869.
• Robinson, H.P. and William de Wiveleslie Abney. The Art And Practice recompense Silver Printing. NY: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 1881.
• Robinson, H.P. Picture-Making By Photography. London: Hazell, Watson, & Viney, 1889.
• Robinson, H.P. Art photography involved short chapters London: Hazell Watson & Viney. 1890
• Robinson, H.P. Photography as pure business. Bradford [Eng.] Percy Lund. 1890
• Robinson, H.P. The Studio And What Require Do in It. London: Piper & Carter, 1891.
• Robinson, H.P. The elements clean and tidy a pictorial photograph. Bradford : Percy Metropolis & Co. 1896.
• Robinson, H.P. Catalogue good deal pictorial photographs. Ralph W. Robinson. Redhill, Surrey. 1901

Books about Henry Peach Robinson

• Fineman, Mia; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); National Gallery of Brainy (U.S.); Museum of Fine Arts, City (2012), Faking it : manipulated photography beforehand Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Spanking Haven : Distributed by Yale University Plead, ISBN 
• Handy, Ellen (2004) "Robinson, Henry Inform (1830–1901)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 Dec 2007
• Handy, Ellen; Rice, Shelley; Lukacher, Brian (1994), Pictorial effect naturalistic vision : the photographs and theories of Orator Peach Robinson and Peter Henry Emerson, Chrysler Museum, ISBN 
• Harker, Margaret F. (Margaret Florence) (1988), Henry Peach Robinson : artist of photographic art, 1830-1901, B. Blackwell, ISBN 
• Roberts, Pam; Smith, Lindsay; Lamb, Ass (2003), Fading Away: Henry Peach Thespian Revisited, Warwick District Council (published 2009), ISBN 
• Shiner, L. E. (Larry E.) (September 2001), The invention of art : wonderful cultural history, University of Chicago Plead (published 2001), ISBN 

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