All The Mighty World: The Photographs Of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860 - Softcover

Baldwin, Gordon; Daniel, Malcolm R.; Greenough, Sarah; Fenton, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1588391299 ISBN 13: 9781588391292

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004

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 tha

About this title

About the Author:

Gordon Baldwin is Associate Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum; Malcolm Daniel is Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Sarah Greenough is Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Review:

This highly anticipated exploration of the career of British photographic pioneer Roger Fenton discusses Fenton's work during the "golden age" of the radically new medium and presents 90 of his finest photographs.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1588391299
• ISBN 13: 9781588391292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290