Sta "disappearing" even the photo disappears  |
| " Fading Away "by Henry Peach Robinson (1858) |
's been 153 years since Henry Peach
Robinson published "Fading Away", the result of the print image on one sheet of 5 negative, producing what is, in effect, a photomontage of the first and best known of the history of photography. Fading Away image was also known for the extreme noise and the wave of criticism we deliver to Robinson, since it portrays a dying girl (probably tuberculosis).
But that was at least a "real" photo, and the surplus of critche that rained down on Robinson, unveiled in 1860 when the procedure of montage was at least built up something real! Today, however, it makes the process with an image that does not even exist! But first things first.
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