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A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton
1863–1908
A leading voice in the pictorialist movement, this English photographer helped argue that photography could be as expressive and artistic as painting. He also wrote practical books and edited major magazines, shaping how photography was discussed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1 Audiobook
A Handbook of Illustration
by A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton
About the author
Born in London in 1863, Alfred Horsley Hinton first studied drawing and painting before turning seriously to photography in the 1880s. He became especially known for atmospheric landscape work and for his role in British pictorialism, a movement that treated photography as an art form rather than simply a mechanical record.
Hinton was more than a maker of images. He edited photographic journals, including The Amateur Photographer, and was an original member of the Linked Ring, an influential group that promoted artistic photography. His pictures were shown widely in Britain and abroad, and he also wrote a number of books on photographic technique and practice.
He died in 1908, but his reputation has lasted because of both his photographs and his advocacy. For listeners interested in the visual culture of the period, he stands out as one of the figures who helped define what art photography could be.