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Contextual notes:
John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-1882) was a wealthy amateur and photographed the activities of his family and social circle at his estate at Penllergare (Swansea, Wales). He also photographed flowers in their natural settings, botanical specimens and simple flower arrangements.
Adolphe Braun (1811-1871) was a French textile designer and had published lithographs before taking up photography. He saw in the 1850s that photographs could be used a means of providing inspiration to artists and designers and took large numbers of flower studies. These became so successful that he changed from a designer into a photographer. There are strong parallels here with Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1952) who would later use plant architecture as a basis for design.
Charles Hippolyte Aubry (1811-1877) in the 1860s took albumen prints of flower arrangements but the undoubted early master of flower photography was the British photographer and lawyer Roger Fenton (1819-1869) who in a final flourish produced unsurpassed still lifes with flowers just before he gave up photography in 1862.
As a small aside here it is worth examining the still lifes done by the photojournalist Don McCullin as they have interesting comparisons with those of Fenton. |
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