NY shows the first hundred years of photography
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York shows, beginning today photographic work of a group of teachers that Europeans and Americans 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 photographs of thirteen individual figures are considered key to the emergence and gradual development of that environment, both from the aesthetic point of view as informative.
A large part of the work that make up the exhibition belong to the collection of the Gilman Paper Company, which acquired the museum in 2005.
Malcolm Daniel, director of the Department of Photographs at the center, said the announcement shows that the latter allows visitors to "feel completely the achievements of some of the greatest artists in this medium."
The exhibition includes some works of English Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Carleton Watkins (1829-1916), best known for the instant he did in the American West during the decades of 1860 and 1870, and the Frenchman Gustave Le Gray (1820 -1884).
They are also showing work by the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), and French Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon 1820-1910), considered one of the masters of the portrait and that resulted in pictures some of his many literary friends and artists such as Alexandre Dumas or mime Charles Deburau.
Works by other prominent British portraitist Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), also part of the exhibit, which will be open to the public until Sept. 1.
The history, landscape and the streets of Paris and France in the rural areas that are captured in images Edouard Baldus (1813-1889) and Charles Marville (1816-1879), who photographed the changes experienced by urban Paris during the tenure of Napoleon III, and that would transform a city with a medieval air with another broad boulevards and grand public buildings.
The French capital and its environs were also issues on which he worked with intensity Arget Eugene (1857-1927) for more than three decades, as you might also check who traverse the sample.
Also includes works by Man Ray (1890-1976), including portraits of his friends relevant as Marcel Duchamp and Jean Cocteau; of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), pioneer of photojournalism; of Brassaï (1899-1984), that reflect the Parisian night, and Walker Evans (1903-1975), best known for the instant he made during the American Depression (1929).
The four authors were very important in the conversion of photography into a modern visual language, according to the New York museum.
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