Léonard Misonne 1870-1943 Belgian Pictorialist Photographer
Léonard Misonne (1870-1943)
Léonard Misonne was a Belgian pictorialist photographer. He is known for his landscapes and street scenes with atmospheric skies.
Misonne would often photograph things that were strongly illuminated from behind, producing a halo effect. He would also retouch the lighting effects in his photographs, experimenting with and using many techniques, such as the Fresson process and later the bromoil and mediobrome processes. He also invented the "flou-net" and "photo-dessin" processes.
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Yes! Exquisite photography. Hit me like first seeing and understanding Cartier Bresson. But, only 37 comments over 2 years, in an age obsessed with hype, sharpness and resolution. What has become of us? These photos will influence me and where I take my photography. Light, composition, and emotion. Thank you.
@cobraracer5729
8 ай бұрын
And to think, he probably shot with a $15 camera. Today we have to have a $3K - $10K one…to make us creative. 😉 Now days Most “photographers” haven’t a clue what is the zone system or how to use a light meter.
Stunning, simply stunning. You can not replicate images like this in a digital camera. Not with any amount of post processing. I’ve just found my favourite photographer. I’d never even heard of him until now.
What a sense of composition! Beautiful! I’ve been a photographer for fifty+ years, and I have never been so impressed.
@peterebel7899
8 ай бұрын
+ what a sense to catch LIGHT
I consider Misonne to be the greatest pictorial photographer who has ever lived. I only discovered him a couple of years ago. His work is in some ways akin to my own. I simply do not understand as yet, how he was able to shoot against the light and get a tonal range that shows everything while looking etched. His work has made me consider my first steps in going back to working with actual film. This is after 25 years working with digital capture and eventually making the results look like film - close, very very close, but not quite.
The most incredible photographer i have ever seen. For me no other living or dead photographer or artist comes close to this man. These pictures move me so much.
I think these are the most incredible photos ive ever seen. Thank you ❤
It’s like you paint with your camera. So beautiful like a painting. I’m so impressed with this.
@jimmyknopflericussi6488
3 ай бұрын
Yes, outstanding images. All the mega-pixels monsters we use nowadays can't achieve this fantastic quality.
What a beautiful selection of photographs!
These pictures are incredibly beautiful pieces of art. What a sense of light and composition. Leonard is now one of my favourites. Glad to have found this video.
... magic, excellent ... thank you
Some people can point a camera at the world and effortlessly covey it all, emotion,sense of time, balance and mystery. This work does just that. Superb.
@tobycunningham797
9 ай бұрын
Hi, I don ‘t think it was effortless. I think these beautiful images are the result of really hard wok. Take care.
Thankyou so much for opening my eyes today to this wonderful photographer.
Today’s landscape photographers, don’t even come close to this photographer’s understanding of light, composition and artistry.
Today, sharpness is how many judge a photograph, to be a good one. These are beautifull
Memerizingly beautiful work, such that will never be repeated. Very moving images.
@kennethakennetha
Жыл бұрын
indeed
Brilliant montage of absolutely captivating and delightful photographs … thank you! 📷🙂
It is so refreshing to see such a talented photographer, in an era before computers, AI, and heavy-handed printing. He understood light, composition and how to render those on film and paper. Wonderful!
One of the most incredible bodies of work this. Top class inspiring art here.
Thank you peace.
EXCELLENT 👍👍👍👍
Mesmerizing pictorial photography...!
Fantastic artistry!
What beautiful photography....
Lisbon, Portugal. Excellent images of a bygone era. Superb eye and superb work for long time and every corner, people and places and situations lived in time. My congrats and many thanks.
Great Images - Truely the first Street Photographer, and the images are amazing...
Absolutely amazing,breathtaking, beautiful artistry ❤ Almost had me in tears😊
Simply fantastic🥀
Absolutely Stunning!! Never heard of This Master Photographer. I've been shooting Film for over 50 years as a Self Taught Amateur Photographer .The only other Master Photographer he reminds me of is Eugene Atget. Such Remarkable Craftsmanship. Many thanks and Kind regards Colyn. Subscribed.
Alhamdulillah, perfect. Awesome 👍
Can’t believe his range of light and shadows. Genius. But I remain skeptical, it’s sooo perfect. Oh, and the composition: excellent.
The work of a real master.
Beautiful work
Beautiful as it gets,superb
Stunning.
Absolutely stunning.
sublime..thank you
Everyone of these is a masterpiece, just stunning and inspiring!
Wonderful - I am going to look up more of his work
Beautiful,
Great art work. Simplesmente um grande espetáculo. Autênticas obras de arte.
Just wow ❤
Ein wirklich grosser Künstler
great video!
This is amazing stuff. I feel shame I had never heard of this photographer.
Mind blowing
😍Beautiful 😍👍
He would kill on Instagram.
I am speechless. Somebody please wake me up .
If you like these, you'll probably like P. H. Emerson's stuff. He's much more famous, though his body of work is smaller. Like Misonne, he worked on the edges of Pictorialism and Modernism. His camera positions and use of monumental depiction, forefronting almost abstract shapes make for some very striking pictures. He was also something of a socially aware documentarist.
Let's live pictorealism.
They have the look of paintings due to the bromoil process which uses ink in making the print.
When God picks up a camera...
Tell me these are not paintings 😶🌫️
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