All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860

FENTON, Roger, Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm Daniel, Sarah Greenough, Richard Pare, Pam Roberts, and Roger Taylor

ISBN 10: 0300104901 / ISBN 13: 9780300104905

Edité par The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Yale University Press, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, CA, New Haven, CT, 2004

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First edition. Oblong hardcover. 290 pages. Published in conjunction with a an exhibition that ran October 17, 2004 through January 2, 2995 in Washington, D.C. and then went on to three other locations for additional dates. Text by Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm Daniel, Sarah Greenough, Richard Pare, Pam Roberts, and Roger Taylor. Includes 174 illustrations with 96 in quadratone. A tight near fine copy with some slight bumping to the corners in a near fine dust jacket. Terrific book on this important 19th century photographer.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860
• Éditeur: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Yale University Press, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, CA, New Haven, CT
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300104901
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300104905
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

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. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (October 17, 2004, to January 2, 2005); the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (February 1 to April 25, 2005); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 16 to August 14, 2005); and Tate Britain, London (September 25, 2005, to January 2, 2006).