Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: March 2, 2012 to May 2, 2012
Location: The Southeast Museum of Photography
Street: 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd. (Building 1200)
City/Town: Daytona Beach, FL, 32114
Website or Map: http://www.smponline.org/
Phone: (386) 506-4475
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: The Southeast Museum of Photography
Latest Activity: Jan 26, 2012
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More than an exhibition of architectural photography, this show examines the work of two artists who were inextricably linked to each other and to the development of modern photography. Eugene Atget turned to photography after a career of acting on the stage and an earlier stint as a commercial seaman. He was dismayed by the amount of architectural history being destroyed during the modernization of Paris and began photographing the city’s shop fronts, streets, and neighborhoods.
Berenice Abbott met Atget in 1925 when she was working as a darkroom assistant to Man Ray. Abbott was deeply and permanently affected by Atget’s images, saying later that there was a sudden flash of recognition- the shock of realism unadorned. Upon returning to New York after an eight-year absence, Abbott realized the city had changed tremendously. She embarked on a project to document the ever-changing Gotham landscape. Her efforts produced a catalog of images that, like Atget’s earlier photographs of Paris, records the essential character of the city.
This exhibition is on loan from the Syracuse University Art Collection.
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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