Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alice Liddell as Alethea by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872. The Swede has been describe as the father of art photography, and even the father of Photoshop, for his complex montages. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery LondonPhillip Prodger, head of photographs at the NPG, is curator of the Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography exhibition. “When people think of Victorian photography, they sometimes think of stiff, fusty portraits of women in crinoline dresses, and men in bowler hats,” he said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photographic study by Clementina Hawarden.

Source: The Guardian August 22, 2017 17:05 UTC