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NY Shows the first hundred years of photography

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from today shows photographic work of a group of European and American masters between 1840 and 1940 gave life and relevance to this new form of visual expression.

The exhibition, entitled Framing a Century, gathers around a dozen of thirteen individual photographs considered key figures in the rise and gradual development of the medium, both aesthetically and informative.

Much of the work in the exhibition are from the collection of the Gilman Paper Company, which acquired the museum in 2005.

Malcolm Daniel, director of the Department of Photography at the Center, noted the announcement of the shows that it allows visitors to "feel full the achievements of some of the greatest artists in this medium."

The exhibition includes some works of the Englishman Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Carleton Watkins (1829-1916), known for the instant he made in the American West during the 1860s and 1870s, and the Frenchman Gustave Le Gray (1820 -1884).

They also show work by the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), French and Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon 1820-1910), considered one of the masters of the portrait and images captured in some of his many literary friends and artists like Alexander Dumas and Charles Deburau mime.

Works by other leading British portraitist Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), also part of the exhibit, which will be open to the public until September 1.

The history, landscape and the streets of Paris and rural France are issues that images collected Edouard Baldus (1813-1889) and Charles Marville (1816-1879), who photographed the Paris urban changes he experienced during the rule of Napoleon III and to transform a city in another medieval air with wide boulevards and grand public buildings.

The French capital and its surroundings were also issues on which he worked intensively Arget Eugene (1857-1927) for over three decades, as can also check who traverse the sample.

Also included are works by Man Ray (1890-1976), including relevant portraits of his friends like Marcel Duchamp and Jean Cocteau, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), pioneer of photojournalism; of Brassai (1899-1984), that reflect the Parisian night, and Walker Evans (1903-1975), known for the instant he made during the American Depression (1929).

These four authors were very important in the conversion of photography into a modern visual language, according to the New York museum.

Via El Universal

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