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Description: | Vitesse (Speed) is a romanticised image of modern transport unlike the hard-edged images of speed that later characterised Modernism in the visual arts. Robert Demachy was a French amateur photographer and painter who became one of the masters of the gum bichromate process. He was a leading member of the Pictorialist movement around 1900. His work was widely exhibited and published by Stieglitz in 'Camera Work'. Demachy's elegant gum pictures were often heavily retouched, using pastels, for example, to create highlights. The subject matter and treatment in Demachy's photographs owe much to the wok of Degas and his contemporaries, resulting in photographs that were closer in effect to painting. However, Peter Henry Emerson, the exponent of naturalism in photography, disliked Demachy's work intensely and described him as 'the great and original gum-splodger' and his pictures as 'theatrical and ill-posed women. They recall the sweepings of the worst type of Paris atelier'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph gum bichromate print | Temporal: | 1904 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Demachy, Robert (1859-1936) | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/22240 | Go to resource |
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