Fading Away
Photograph
1858 (photographed)
1858 (photographed)
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Photograph by Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, albumen print, 1858.
Object details
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| Title | Fading Away (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print |
| Brief description | Photograph by Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, albumen print, 1858. |
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| Gallery label | Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2018)
Marta Weiss
This was one of the most famous and controversial tableau photographs of the Victorian period. A depiction of the final moments of a graceful young consumptive surrounded by her family, it was composed from five separate negatives, using a technique that Robinson had learned from O.G. Rejlander. Critics were less concerned with the picture’s overt theatricality than with whether forming a single picture from negatives taken on different occasions constituted a betrayal of photography’s truthfulness. |
| Credit line | The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund. |
| Associated object | PROV.2493-2017 (RPS Group record) |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | RPS.2314-2017 |
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| Record created | August 22, 2017 |
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