Bayard Hippolyte
#Photographe
- Exposition
Works by Talbot, Bayard, Atkins, Le Gray, Coburn, Kuhn
Basel, Switzerland – Exhibiting for the 21st year at Art Basel, Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will present landmark works from the early history of photography. Signature images will be on view from such important innovators as William Henry Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard, Anna Atkins and Gustave Le Gray as well as works by early 20th century masters such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and Heinrich Kühn.
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) conceived of the very idea of photography during the 1830s, combining the use of the camera obscura with light sensitive-chemistry. Ela, an intimate portrait from the early 1840s, depicts the photographer’s young daughter gazing pensively beyond the camera.
Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887), whose early photographic discoveries were perhaps eclipsed by those... - Exposition
Hippolyte Bayard : At Galerie Daniel Blau
Galerie Daniel Blau at TEFAF 2010, Stand 466
It's all about light this year. Light as it is scattered and coloured by glass; Light as it is spirited by the painter; Light as it is captured by the photographer.
In the words of Eugenia Parry, in her essay on Bayard, “Looking was delicious”. Why should this not still be so, I ask? Hippolyte Bayard is counted among the inventors, artists, and magicians of photography. His works are great rarities in the art market, as he left almost the entirety of his work to the Société Française de Photographie, which he co-founded in 1854. While Daguerre is known for eternalising his images on silver-coated copper plates, it was Bayard who in 1839 was the first on the European continent (excepting Talbot and some others in England) to successfully p...
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