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Title: Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography
Artist or Composer: Phillip Prodger
UPC: 9781855147065
Label: National Portrait Gallery
Released: 2018
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: Very light wear to disc. Case and artwork included but clearly used. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll and Clementina Hawarden embody the very best of Victorian photography
The work of Oscar Rejlander (1813-75), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), Lewis Carroll (1832-98) and Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65) embodies the very best of photography from the Victorian era. These giants of 19th-century photography experimented with new approaches to picture-making and shaped attitudes toward photography that have informed artistic practice ever since. Discover the images that made the case for the photograph as a work of art in this beautiful book.
These four artists–a Swedish émigré with a mysterious past, a middle-aged Ceylonese expatriate, an Oxford academic and writer of fantasy literature, and a Scottish countess–formed the unlikeliest of schools. Both Carroll and Cameron studied under Rejlander briefly, and maintained a lasting association based around intersecting approaches to portraiture and narrative. Influenced by historical painting and working in close association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, they formed a bridge between the art of the past and the art of the future.
In her foreword to this volume, the Duchess of Cambridge writes: “photographs of children in particular, which feature predominately in the exhibition, are of real interest to me … these photographs allow us to reflect on the importance of preserving and appreciating childhood while it lasts.”
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