Leonard Misonne

LEONARD MISONNE
Belgium


I love Misonne's work.  There is almost a magical realism to his photo's.  He has manipulated the photo's to his own idea of an image.  I think it is quite amazing for the time.

from google for education only

Leonard Misonne mystical photographs were known as pictoralism, a method in which he manipulated the photographs to achieve a certain emotional style and creating his own image from the photograph.

"Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer's realm of imagination.^{[1]" source wickapedia}