Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: January 1, 2012 to January 8, 2012
Location: Van Gogh Museum
Street: Paulus Potterstraat 7 1071 CX
City/Town: Amsterdam
Website or Map: http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
Phone: +31 (0)20 570 52 00
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: Van Gogh Museum
Latest Activity: Jan 1, 2012
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When the first manageable, easy-to-use camera was invented in 1888, the field of photography opened up for amateurs. Spontaneous photography became possible: the snapshot was born. It would change the ways in which the world was captured in images forever.
Among the enthusiastic users of the earliest amateur cameras were many artists. The painters George Hendrik Breitner, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Rivière, Felix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard all fully embraced the new possibility. Their intimate, personal snaps provide a broader picture of their time, and make it clear how photography and painting interacted.
In the beginning, the camera was mainly used for personal portraits, for documenting the world and the many changes it underwent, and as auxiliary means for the artists' paintings. It was not until later that photography would evolve as an independent art form. The exhibition examines the role that early amateur photography played in these seven artists' lives and how it influenced their work; it features 220 photographs and 70 paintings, prints and drawings.
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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