Friday, August 22, 2008

Master Photographers 1840–1940

Metropolitan Museum exhibition

Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940

Through September 1

This exhibition tells the story of photography's first hundred years through the work of key figures who helped shape the aesthetic and expressive course of the medium: Gustave Le Gray, Roger Fenton, Carleton Watkins, William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, Édouard Baldus, Charles Marville, Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Brassaï. Many of the works on view are drawn from the Museum's 2005 acquisition of the Gilman Collection.

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