'Framing a Century': Photography from 1840-1940 Jun 10, 2008
In between are the landscapes of Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray and Carleton E. Watkins; portraits by Nadar and Julia Margaret Cameron; and views of 19th- and early-20th-century Paris and France by Charles Marville. douard Baldus and Eug. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Flash: Photos make great investments Jan 14, 2008
"Today, one can buy a masterpiece of 19th century photography (Gustave Le Gray, Roger Fenton, Charles Ngre, etc) at a fraction of the price of works done by a contemporary artist," says Leroy. Moreover, since new quality work is always in demand, the works of Indian photographers is getting global recognition too. (Times of India)
History of Photography Exhibitions Nov 28, 2007
The artistic achievements of photography during its first century are celebrated with masterworks by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), Nadar (1820-1910), Eugne Atget (1857-1927), Walker Evans (1903-1975), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), Man Ray (1890-1976) and Brassa (1899-1984), among others. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY USA: June 3-September 1, 2008. (Suite101.com)
Celebrating the photographic images that became part of history Mar 24, 2007
Another of modern history's many pointless slaughters, at least it left behind landmark pictures by the Briton Roger Fenton, the Frenchman Jean-Charles Langlois and others the very first battlefront photographs, which were memorably strange. Fenton shot the Valley of the Shadow of Death, a landmark of the war, strewn with cannonballs "like the moraines of a melted glacier," as the editor of The Photographic Journal aptly put it in 1855. (International Herald Tribune)
