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Art techniques of Eduardo Masferré

Eduardo Masferré was a Filipino-Catalan photographer who made important documentary reports about the life-style of native people within the region of the Cordillera within the Philippines at the middle of 20th century. He’s considered the daddy of Philippine photography, he taught himself the complicated art and science of analog photography and, learned to develop and hand paint his own prints with simple equipment and materials available to him at the time, half a century before the arrival of the pc, camera and digital printer. Masferré was documenting the Cordillera and its tribal peoples in earnest, capturing in beautiful black-and-white or hand-painted prints the landscape, architecture and village lifetime of the tribal communities within the area. Masferré’s photographs aren’t only visual records in anthropology but also pieces of art within the medium of photography his meticulous choice and artistic blending of subject, choreography, environment and texture or tint of print transform his photographs into works of art. In technical construction and tonal quality, his hand-painted photographs are in essence paintings executed in print, the techniques of photo-based painting and, inversely, painting-based photography practiced by many renowned painters and photographers today owe their existence to the pioneering works of Masferré and his contemporary artists....