Edmundo Behles is an artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Edmundo Behles kept a darkroom in a cramped Buenos Aires apartment where he mixed paints and chemicals until his hands stayed yellow for days. He shot portraits of street vendors with a box camera, then hand-colored the prints until faces glowed like stained glass. Look up A Bust (late 19th century) to see one of those faces—soft red cheeks on a woman whose name was never written down—frozen in 1892 by a man who never signed his own.

Works by Edmundo Behles

A Bust
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection

Collections represented

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.