Untitled
c. 1900–1906
Medium
gum bichromate print
Dimensions
image: 21.6 × 17.8 cm · matted: 45.7 × 35.6 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann
Accession Number
1985.203
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About this artwork
The son of a wealthy Parisian banker, Robert Demachy's financial independence enabled him to pursue his interests in music and art. Beginning in the 1880s, he made photographs in the pictorial style and in 1894 began to use the gum bichromate process, which allowed considerable handwork to be done on the print. Demachy was a prominent defender of the use of manipulative printing techniques, and wrote more than a thousand articles and numerous books on the technical processes and issues involved....