MISONNE (Léonard).

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MISONNE (Léonard).
"The Storm's Coming" (1941). Mediobrome print, dated, signed in lead pencil in the lower left corner, mounted under mat and wood frame. Dim. frame : 44 x 56 cm ; subject : 38 x 27 cm. Léonard Missonne (1870-1943), the most famous Belgian photographer on the international scene never, paradoxically, left the small town of Gilly, near Charleroi. In 1896, he became a member of the Association Belge de Photographie, an important society of amateur photographers which had been experiencing a remarkable boom in recent years and enjoyed a solid reputation among foreign companies. Through the rigour of his work and the quality of his prints, Misonne became one of the leaders of an international movement, the school of artistic photography (pictorialism), for whom the importance lay in the final image and not in a retranscription of reality. For his classically inspired photographs (mainly landscapes and scenes of workers or peasants), he developed the mediobrome process, a derivative of bromoil. This chemical process involves a pigment-based printing process, which allows the manipulation of the final image. At Misonne, the aim of this manipulation was to play with light in order to give a very special atmosphere to his images. His landscapes and street portraits are full of that unreal post-storm light often found in Belgium.
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