Henry robinson

Henry Peach Robinson — was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing — joining multiple negatives or prints to form a single image; an early example of photomontage. That same year he began taking photographs, and five years later, following a meeting with the photographer Hugh Welch Diamond, decided to devote himself to that medium, in opening a studio in Leamington Spa, selling portraits.

In , at the age of thirty-four, Robinson was forced to give up his studio due to ill-health from exposure to toxic photographic chemicals. Relocating to London, Robinson kept up his involvement with the theoretical side of photography, writing the influential essay Pictorial Effect in Photography , Being Hints on Composition and Chiaroscuro for Photographers, published in Around this time his health had improved sufficiently to open a new studio in Tunbridge Wells with Nelson King Cherrill, and in he became vice-president of the Royal Photographic Society.

He advocated strongly for photography to be regarded as an art form. The partnership with Cherrill dissolved in , Robinson continuing the business until his retirement in Following internal disputes within the Photographic Society, he resigned in to become one of the early members of the rival Linked Ring society, in which he was active until , when he was also elected an honorary member of the Royal Photographic Society.

He was subsequently persuaded to serve as President in , when his presidential speeches were read out by a colleague. Combination print made from six different negatives.

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