Inventing a new art : early photographs from the Rubel collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author

Daniel, Malcolm

Document type

Catalogue d'exposition

Language

English

Source

Bulletin - Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1999, Vol. 56, Num. 4, 56 p., ill. (some col.), bibliogr. ref.

ISSN

0026-1521

Abstract (en)

Celebrates the acquisition of the William Rubel Collection of 78 19th-c. photographs and accompanies a selection of the works on exhibition. The essay has the following divisions: "The Rubel collection"; "`A little bit of magic realised': William Henry Fox Talbot and his circle"; "`The pictures are as Rembrandt's but improved': calotypes by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson"; "`More than mere photographs': the art of Roger Fenton"; "`Men great thro' genius ... women thro' love': portraits by Julia Margaret Cameron"; "`Divine perfection': the daguerreotype in Europe and America"; and "Addition works from the Rubel collection".

Exhibition

• 1 June-19 Sept 1999 ; Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New York (NY, USA) ; United States

Subject (en)

• Exhibitions
• Collections
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Photography
• Great Britain
• 1800-1900
• Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877
• Calotypes
• Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870
• Adamson, Robert, 1821-1848
• Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869
• Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879
• Daguerreotypes
• United States
• Collectors
• Rubel, William, 20th c.

Subject (fr)

• Exposition
• Collections
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Photographie
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-1900
• Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877
• Calotype
• Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870
• Adamson, Robert, 1821-1848
• Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869
• Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879
• Daguerréotype
• Etats-Unis
• Collectionneurs
• Rubel, William, 20~e s.

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20001001-00184331

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