Corey Wynn's Weekly Post 7

Robert Demachy

Robert Demachy was a French Pictorial photographer of the late 19th and 20th century. He was best known for the way he manipulated his prints, appearing as if they had been painted. Sometime in the late 1870s he began experimenting with photography.. For the next thirty years he devoted all of his time to both taking photographs and writing extensively about photography. In 1894 he began to use the gum bichromate printing process and he developed a style that relied upon heavy manipulation of the image both during the development of the negative and again while printing. he began experimenting with the Rawlins oil process, this change allowed him to further blend the aesthetics of a painter with those of a photographer. About 1906 he abandoned gum-bichromate printing altogether in favor of oil printing. He continued to explore further ways to manipulate his images, and by 1911 he had perfected the modern bromoil process. This allowed him to become even bolder in his visual style, and soon his works attracted a broad international audience. Over the next two years he exhibited in Paris, Vienna and New York, as well as London. More of his work can be seen here.