Henry Peach RobinsonAn Influential Pictorialist

Lady of ShalottIconic picture

Fading AwayControversial picture that skyrocketed Robinson’s career.

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Henry Peach Robinson• Pictorialism advocate!!! • Fougth and argued that photos could be art• Precocious, had painting displayed at the Royal

Academy in London at age twenty one• Founding member of Linkd Ring, an association of

prestigious art photographers• Wrote three books about photography the most

famous being Pictorial Effects of Photography, which was translated in numerous languages and famous throughout decades after it was published

• Peter Henry Emerson disliked him for several reasons

Photography would have been settled a fine art long ago if we had not, in more ways than one, gone so much into detail. We have always been too proud of the detail of our work and the ordinary detail of our processes.

- Henry Peach Robinson