Masters of Photography - Robert Demachy

Photography © The Estate of Robert Demachy Music - "You're still you" by Josh Groban http://www.joshgroban.com/home... Support the artist, buy his music as I did. http://www.joshgroban.com/stor... ---------------------------- Demachy's biography (The Cleveland Museum of Art) http://www.clevelandart.org/ex... Robert Leon Demachy, French, 1859-1936 (born July 7, 1859 in St-Germain-en-Laye- Dec, 29, 1936 in Hennequeville, Calvados). Robert Demachy was a banker of independent means whose rarefied and varied interests ranged from racing cars to music, literature, and art. His American wife, Julia Adelia Delano, was related to Franklin Roosevelt. In the field of photography, Demachy was both practitioner and theoretician, writing five books and more than 1,000 articles on aesthetic and technical issues. He was a leader in the manipulative style in which the negative was used as the basis for producing prints that approached aquatint and other intaglio media in their overtly artistic, handworked qualities. He was especially known for his work with the gum bichromate and oil printing processes, the latter of which he pioneered and developed with Alfred Maskell. He later abandoned photography for sketching and drawing. Demachy's photographs often have the quality of paintings, drawings, or intaglio prints and are frequently printed in color. His varied subject matter is often treated in an idealized manner, characteristic of the pictorialism prevalent during the time he worked (roughly 1880-1914). Demachy was a member of the Société française de photographie, the Linked Ring, and the Photo-Secession. In 1894 he helped to found the Photo Club de Paris. He was also a member of honor of the Royal Photographic Society and a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. --------------------------- http://www.luminous-lint.com/a... http://www.photogravure.com/co... %20Robert http://www.artnet.com/artist/5... http://reproductions.chapitre.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... http://www.criaturacreativa.co... http://www.clevelandart.org/ex...

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