biography
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Robinson, Henry Peach
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| male
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| lived:
| (1830–1901)
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| biography:
| Photographer, born in Ludlow, Shropshire, WC England, UK. He opened a studio at Leamington Spa in 1857, but tired of formal portraiture and moved to ‘high art photography’, creating literary and narrative genre scenes in the mid-Victorian style, often by composites of several separate images of costumed models and painted settings. Although criticized for artificiality, he exercised considerable influence until the end of the century, and was a founder member of the Linked Ring (1892), an association of photographers seeking artistic creation. |
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