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All the mighty world : the photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860 / Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm Daniel, and Sarah Greenough ; with contributions by Richard Pare, Pam Roberts, and Roger Taylor.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2004.Description: xiv, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 26 x 30 cmISBN:
  • 1588391280 (hardcover)
  • 1588391299 (pbk.)
  • 0300104901 (Yale University Press)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 779/.092 22
LOC classification:
  • NR647 .F46 2004
  • TR647 .F46 2004
Contents:
A Note on Early Photographic Techniques. Map of the British Isles, with major sites photographed by Fenton. "A New Starting Point": Roger Fenton's Life / Sarah Greenough -- "On Nature's Invitation Do I Come": Roger Fenton's Landscapes / Malcom Daniel -- In Pursuit of Architecture / Gordon Baldwin -- "Mr. Fenton Explained Everything": Queen Victoria and Roger Fenton / Roger Taylor -- "Trying His Hand Upon Some Oriental Figure Subjects" / Gordon Baldwin -- Roger Fenton and the Still-Life Tradition / Pam Roberts. Plates. "A Most Enthusiastic Cultivator of His Art": Fenton's Critics and the Trajectory of His Career / Roger Taylor -- "The Exertions of Mr. Fenton": Roger Fenton and the Founding of the Photographic Society / Pam Roberts -- A Chronology of the Life and Photographic Career of Roger Fenton / Roger Taylor and Gordon Baldwin.
Summary: Publisher description: A highly anticipated exploration of the work of a British photographic pioneer ... Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England's most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the "golden age" of this radically new medium. Fenton's majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England-as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain's power. But Fenton's choice of subjects ranged more widely still: he was among the first to photograph the Kremlin and other landmarks of Moscow and Kiev; he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, producing early war photographs; and he created theatrical Orientalist costume pictures and a startling series of lush still lifes. Fenton had first studied law and painting, but soon after he took up the camera he was making photographs that were technically superb and highly original in their handling of composition, perspective, atmosphere, and light. Always he strove to demonstrate that photography could equal the art of painting and even surpass it. He was the force behind the founding of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society), which worked to advance the profession and encouraged the exhibition of members' works throughout Britain. In a career of a single decade, Fenton did much to transform photography into a medium of powerful expression and visual delight. This exquisitely produced book-the first comprehensive publication on Fenton in almost twenty years-presents eighty-five of the artist's finest photographs and discusses every aspect of his work and his remarkable career.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks NR647 .F46 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000751486

Catalog of the exhibition held Oct. 17, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Feb. 1-Apr. 24, 2005 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; May 24, 2005-Aug. 21, 2005 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Sept. 21, 2005-Jan. 2, 2006 at Tate Britain, London.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and index.

A Note on Early Photographic Techniques. Map of the British Isles, with major sites photographed by Fenton. "A New Starting Point": Roger Fenton's Life / Sarah Greenough -- "On Nature's Invitation Do I Come": Roger Fenton's Landscapes / Malcom Daniel -- In Pursuit of Architecture / Gordon Baldwin -- "Mr. Fenton Explained Everything": Queen Victoria and Roger Fenton / Roger Taylor -- "Trying His Hand Upon Some Oriental Figure Subjects" / Gordon Baldwin -- Roger Fenton and the Still-Life Tradition / Pam Roberts. Plates. "A Most Enthusiastic Cultivator of His Art": Fenton's Critics and the Trajectory of His Career / Roger Taylor -- "The Exertions of Mr. Fenton": Roger Fenton and the Founding of the Photographic Society / Pam Roberts -- A Chronology of the Life and Photographic Career of Roger Fenton / Roger Taylor and Gordon Baldwin.

Publisher description: A highly anticipated exploration of the work of a British photographic pioneer ... Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England's most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the "golden age" of this radically new medium. Fenton's majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England-as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain's power. But Fenton's choice of subjects ranged more widely still: he was among the first to photograph the Kremlin and other landmarks of Moscow and Kiev; he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, producing early war photographs; and he created theatrical Orientalist costume pictures and a startling series of lush still lifes. Fenton had first studied law and painting, but soon after he took up the camera he was making photographs that were technically superb and highly original in their handling of composition, perspective, atmosphere, and light. Always he strove to demonstrate that photography could equal the art of painting and even surpass it. He was the force behind the founding of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society), which worked to advance the profession and encouraged the exhibition of members' works throughout Britain. In a career of a single decade, Fenton did much to transform photography into a medium of powerful expression and visual delight. This exquisitely produced book-the first comprehensive publication on Fenton in almost twenty years-presents eighty-five of the artist's finest photographs and discusses every aspect of his work and his remarkable career.

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