Modesty by van Besten

Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Modesty, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists — **Sebastiaan Alfonse van Besten ::** Modesty, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists

Alfonse van Besten (1865-1926) was a painter, and took full advantage of the possibilities of the new colour process: the Autochrome. One can see that many of his Autochromes were taken with a “painterly eye” e.g. Musing (Mrs.van Besten) or Symphony in white.

During the first World War (1914-1918) he was a refugee in The Netherlands. Together with his friend A. van Son, another Belgian autochromist and refugee, they gave countless lectures at several Dutch photography societies. They were praised for their excellent Autochrome work, e.g. on the 16th of April 1915 the photographic society “Meer Licht” from Nymegen (NL) paid an homage to Van Besten for his outstanding autochrome plates. See Homage to Van Besten at Nymegen.

He was member of The photographic association IRIS-Antwerp and the Association Belge de Photographie. [quoted from source]

Oscar Gustave Rejlander :: ‘The Two Ways of Life’, a moralistic photomontage of Rejlander’s own work, 1857 (the first photomontage in history)

In 1857 Rejlander made his best-known allegorical work: The Two Ways of Life. This was a seamlessly montaged combination print made of thirty-two images in about six weeks. First exhibited at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, the work shows two youths being offered guidance by a patriarch. Each youth looks toward a section of a stage-like tableaux vivant – one youth is shown the virtuous pleasures and the other the sinful pleasures. / source: Wikipedia

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