Currently not on view
Landscape with small hill and trees,
ca. 1898
Alfred Horsley Hinton, British, 1863–1908
x1989-45 a-b
Hinton was a founder of the Linked Ring, an association of British photographers who were unhappy with the Photographic Society of Great Britain, which supported photography’s scientific and technological uses over its artistic possibilities. The Linked Ring advocated instead for Pictorialism, which aimed to imitate the effects of painting in photography by manipulating the photographic image. In this Pictorialist photograph, Hinton added atmospheric effects by hand, creating a hazy impression of the countryside rather than a document of a specific location and point in time. This emphasis on manipulation meant that many of the Pictorialist’s photographs became, like daguerreotypes, one-of-a-kind images.
Information
Title
Landscape with small hill and trees
Dates
ca. 1898
Maker
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
a: 44.3 × 59.3 cm (17 7/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
frame: 62.5 × 78 × 2.5 cm (24 5/8 × 30 11/16 × 1 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, anonymous gift
Object Number
x1989-45 a-b
Place Made
Europe, England, London
Inscription
Signed in ink, lower left (a): A. Horsley Hinton
Culture
Techniques
Untitled
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1989," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 49, no. 1 (1990): p. 24-57., p. 34
- Peter c. Bunnell, "Pictoral Photography," in "The Art of Pictoral Photography 1890-1925," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 51, no. 2 (1992): 2,10–15., p. 10 (illus.)
