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"Bayadère"?

Posted by Roman Kravchenko on May 9, 2010 at 16:30

Roger FentonIn the summer of 1858, in his London studio, Fenton made a series of orientalist costume pieces modeled on the painted harem scenes and odalisques of Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres that he had seen in Paris, and motivated by his desire to elevate the status of photography by tackling themes more frequently treated in painting.

kravchenko, plate, process, roman, wet

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