Henry Peach Robinson

Picture-Making By Photography. Publications
Robinson was author of a number of texts in which he promoted the photography as an art form his books being widely used photographic reference material in the late 19th-century. P.

Henry Peach Robinson (9 July 1830 Ludlow Shropshire – 21 February 1901 Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent) 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. He joined vigorously in contemporary debates in the photographic press and associations about the legitimacy of 'art photography' and in particular the combining of separate images into one.