Henry Peach Robinson

Biography: 19th Century photographer Henry Peach Robinson

Biography: 19th Century photographer Henry Peach Robinson

Henry Peach Robinson (1830 – 1901) 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. In 1852 he exhibited an oil painting, On the Teme Near Ludlow, at the Royal Academy. That same year he began taking photographs, and five years…