The exhibition was prepared on the basis of ROSPHOTO collection and the British collection "Preraphaelitism in the art of photography," presented by the British Council in Dar Tomsk regional art Museum

RAH, April 15 @may 31. 2015
the Gallery of arts Zurab Tsereteli
Moscow, Prechistenka str., 19

Today in the Gallery of arts Zurab Tsereteli in Moscow opened the exhibition "Photography of the Victorian era".

the Exhibition has been prepared on the basis of ROSPHOTO collection and the British collection "Preraphaelitism in the art of photography," presented by the British Council in Dar Tomsk regional art Museu@

the exhibition covers 1850-70-е years and focuses on an important period, not only in photography but also in the history of English art — period, known as the "Victorian era". Its importance is defined as the growing interest of photographers to the art and desire the photograph to enter the Pantheon of fine arts. The result of this commitment was the development of art photography in which the authors, based on various combinations of real and artificial, are searching for painting techniques that reflect their creative and cultural interesy@

during this period the interests of English artists and photographers are the same. And those and others find inspiration in the images of medieval art, literature and poetry, appeal to religious topics, and to povsednevnosti@

the exhibition presents photographic works by famous authors, included in the pre-Raphaelite circle, among them Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henry Peach Robinson, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).

In a number of other artists of the Victorian era, which left a significant mark in the history of photography, — Roger Fenton, the head of the London photographic society and the first official war photographer, lady Clementine Hawarden — one of the first women-фотографов, received the first ever photos of the award for best Amateur collection. The exhibition includes a photograph of Alice Liddell — girls who became the Muse of Lewis Carroll, which he dedicated to the wonderful works of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice in Wonderland".

the Second part of the exhibition is a gift album with views of cities, historical sites and monuments of Scotland. Similar albums view photos were widespread in the second half of the nineteenth century among the upper and middle class Britain. The principal author of this album — James Valentine, Scottish photographer, specializing in surveying for species of ready-made albums and photo greeting cards, including those issued since 1850-х, and his own printing firm Valentine & Sons. 38 photos in the technique of "wet collodion", invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. With the development of new technologies wet collodion process was delayed as a glass plate on Bumaga@

the album also includes 12 prints another major master view photos, filmed mainly architectural and natural landscapes of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland, — George Washington Wilson, main photo archive of which (40 000 units) is stored in the collection of the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). These works are executed photomechanical printing method —"woodburytype", patented by Walter Bentley in January 1864 goda@

In this collection are such photographic styles including architectural, landscape, portrait, reportage and scientific photography. The items in the collection, though made at different levels of professional skills, are extremely high, historic, historical-технологическую and art tsennosti@

Source: rah.ru