Robert Demachy was the leading French proponent of Pictorialism and the director of the Photo-Club de Paris, the French parallel to the American Photo-Secession (led by Alfred Stieglitz), the Viennese Kleeblatt, and the British Brotherhood of the Linked Ring.
Like his American and European counterparts, Demachy produced and promoted a type of photography that self-consciously evoked drawing and painting-part of an effort to distinguish his pictures from the products of amateur snap shooters and commercial photographers.
Demachy was particularly interested in nonstandard photographic processes and is noted especially for his revival of the gum bichromate process.
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)
