Henry Peach Robinson ( 1830-1901)

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. he exhibited his most famous photograph, "Fading Away," in 1858. This was a deathbed scene of a young woman, made from combining five separate negatives.

“Sleep”, 1867

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Figures in Landscape, Print from two or more negatives, circa 1880

"Morning and Evening" , 1902

"When the Day's Work is Done "(1877). Combination print made from six different negatives.

"Fading Away", in 1858 made from combining five separate negatives

Maude and Ethel, daughters of the photographer, 1868

"Red Riding Hood" , 1858

Jill Greenberg

Jill Greenberg "The Manipulator" is one of the more popular photographers who presents her photos in unique ways. She has a creative vision of enhancing and recreating images by drawing, painting and with the use of digital imaging . While Jill Greenberg is one of the more popular photographers of her era, she also happens to be one of the most controversial photographers. In her exhibit called End Times, Jill Greenberg showed different photos of infants and toddlers crying and throwing tantrums. How far would she have to get the perfect shot? One photography enthusiasts revealed Greenberg’s rather sadistic way of inducing her subjects to cry - she gives them lollipop and then suddenly takes it away. The story was revealed and many condemned Greenberg’s methods, especially parents.

Eric Kellerman

Eric Kellerman is a Briton who has lived near Nijmegen in the Netherlands for just over half his life. In 2008, he retired from academic life to spend even more time on photography.
He works almost entirely in the studio and uses digital equipment from camera to print, although image manipulation is limited to darkroom-like processes. Specialising in the nude, he has a regular team of female collaborators, most of whom have a serious interest in movement (dance, drama therapy, athletics, martial arts).

Kellerman used to consider his work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘unerotic’, despite its subject matter. Now he's not so sure. He emphasises line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. He likes to create ambiguity in his photos, so that the viewer is sometimes unsure what part of the body is being looked at. In this way, he attempts to free the female body of its conventional associations.

He has been influenced by surrealism (Dali, Magritte, Delvaux’ nudes and railway stations) and the Canadian ‘magic realist’ painter Alex Colville, whose partially hidden bodies in essentially intimate scenes can create a surprising sense of alienation. This partial view, the ‘privileged peep’, fits in with Kellerman’s particular aesthetic very well.

Michal Macku “Gellage"

Michal Macku has used his own creative technique which he has named "Gellage" (the ligature of collage and gelatin). The technique consists of transfer the exposed and fixed photographic emulsion from its original base on paper. This transparent and plastic gelatin substance makes it possible to reshape and reform the original images, changing their relationships and endowing them with new meanings during the transfer. The finished work gives a compact image with a fine surface structure. Created on photographic quality paper, each Gellage is a highly durable print eminently suited for collecting and exhibiting.

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