Heinrich Kuehn, A Study in Sunlight 1906

Heinrich Kuehn

A Study in Sunlight, 1906

Camera Work XIII

Photogravure, 19.8 x 14 cm

A leader of Pictorialist photography in Europe, Heinrich Kühn was a major figure of the Vienna Camera Club and a member of the Kleeblatt, a trio of photographers that included Hans Watzek and Hugo Henneberg. Exhibiting together until 1903, they perfected the gum bichromate printing process and made large pictures composed of broad, rich tonal masses that involved a high degree of handwork; their photographs took on the appearance of mezzotints, aquatints, and other traditional processes of graphic art.

Reproduced

Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present. , 2012. p. 149.