12.11.1840: Auguste Rodin (†17.11.1917)
The image above of Rodin in his studio was made by the young Edward Steichen.
After being introduced to Rodin by the painter Fritz Thaulow, Steichen visited Rodin every week for almost a year before he brought his camera and made 4 plates. The image above is a composition of two separate photographs, as Steichen’s Rapid-Rectilinear lens could not capture the whole scene in one.
At the beginning Steichen did not have the know-how to combine two negatives into one, and so he started by glueing the prints together, it took him 2 years to find a way to combine the negatives in a satisfactory way.
(I got the information out of this book. It is in German but I assume there is an English version of it.)
