| Dates: | 1870 - 1943 | | Born: | Belgium | | Active: | Belgium | | Gender: | Male |
Belgian pictorialist. An engineer turned painter, pianist and photographer, Misonne was interested in the interplay of light and atmosphere. He worked with the carbon and oil process and photographed the European countryside, producing lyrical and graceful landscapes as well as figure studies.
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 | Léonard Misonne: Coming towards the camera |
|  | Léonard Misonne: Pastoral |
|  | Léonard Misonne: Trees |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.125 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Léonard Misonne.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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