Maskell (Born about 1857) was a founder member of the British Linked Ring and a photographer. Writing to Henry Peach Robinson on April 24, 1892, Maskell proposed a revolutionary new photographic organization that became known as the Linked Ring: "Now it has struck me that it would be good…(to) form a small society, an inner circle, a kind of little Bohemian Club, and I am sending this idea to a small number of others in order that we might meet and make a beginning."
Maskell was both a champion and pioneer for unconventional photographic processes including pinhole photography and the gum bichromate process. This photogravure of a young Dutch girl was taken using a pinhole camera by Maskell. An article titled "Artistic Focus and the Suppression of the Lens" which deals with photography without the aid of a lens, ("pinhole photography") was published in the Photographic Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 5. from October 1890. It can be accessed as a pdf document from the historical documents menu at the website for Nick Dvoracek Pinhole Photography: http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/pinholephoto.htm
Plate (Graveur) by Fillon et Heuse
Printed by Ateliers Charles Wittmann
Included in the "Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1896)
