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Fading Away
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Fading Away
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Henry Peach Robinson
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Henry Peach Robinson
Describes the life and career of Robinson, shows examples of his landscapes, portraits, narrative scenes, and composite photographs, and discusses his technique
Henry Peach Robinson
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Letters on Landscape Photography
Working at the end of the nineteenth century, photographer Henry Peach Robinson was best known for his zealous, and highly adept, use of combination printing -- creating a single image from multiple negatives. He was also an accomplished writer and this short book from 1888 remains one of his most endearing. In practical instruction and personal anecdote, it extols his unyielding belief that capturing the natural beauty of the landscape required the helping hand of props, costumed models, and a spare negative or two. Popular upon its original publication, in today's era of easy, continuous and nearly limitless digital manipulation, this century-old text resonates again. "Henry Peach Robinson...
Faking it
"It is a long-held truism that 'the camera does not lie'. Yet, as Mia Fineman argues in this illuminating volume, that statement contains its own share of untruth. While modern technological innovations, such as Adobe's Photoshop software, have accustomed viewers to more obvious levels of image manipulation, the practice of "doctoring" photographs has in fact existed since the medium was invented. In "Faking It", Fineman demonstrates that today's digitally manipulated images are part of a continuum that begins with the earliest years of photography, encompassing methods as diverse as overpainting, multiple exposure, negative retouching, combination printing, and photomontage. Among the book'...
