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Laszlo Layton
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Cabinet of Curiosities & Pictorial Zoology - Laszlo Layton
As a child growing up near the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona, Laszlo Layton spent summers there studying animals and natural history. He later worked in the motion picture industry for more than 20 years and spent his evenings and weekends painting. When he read about contemporary photographers reviving 19th-century photo printing processes, he became fascinated by the oldest formulas for handmade photographic prints. He restored an old Deardorff studio view camera and was inspired to rediscover his youthful interest in zoology. Cabinet of Curiosities and Pictorial Zoology, two series of his photographs, are featured in The Atelier Gallery of the Griffin Museum. Cabinet of Curiosities is inspired by illuminated books on nature from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, illustrated with engravings and lithographs of draw...
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As a child growing up near the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona, Laszlo Layton spent summers there studying animals and natural history. He later worked in the motion picture industry for more than 20 years and spent his evenings and weekends painting.
When he read about contemporary photographers reviving 19th-century photo printing processes, he became fascinated by the oldest formulas for handmade photographic prints. He restored an old Deardorff studio view camera and was inspired to rediscover his youthful interest in zoology.
Cabinet of Curiosities and Pictorial Zoology, two series of his photographs, are featured in The Atelier Gallery of the Griffin Museum.
Cabinet of Curiosities is inspired by illuminated books on nature from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, illustrated with engravings and lithographs of draw...