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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Ranjit Dhaliwal

Fading Away - a picture from the past

Fading Away, 1858.
An albumen print of an image, titled Fading Away, depicting a young woman dying of tuberculosis. Peach, an early proponent of the photomontage, was also one of the leading lights in the pictorialist movement; which promoted photography as an art form
Illustration: Photograph: Henry Peach Robinson/ Royal Photographic Society/ SSPL via Getty Images
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