Exhibition looks at photography’s impact on ImpressionistsMADRID – Few inventions had such a significant impact on modern society as photography did. Its appearance radically changed how artists, particularly the Impressionist painters, looked at the world and depicted reality. The exhibition on view at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza this autumn examines the repercussions the invention of photography had on the development of […]
Charles Marvelle photos of old Paris on view at MetNEW YORK – Widely acknowledged as one of the most talented photographers of the 19th century, Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879) was commissioned by the city of Paris to document both the picturesque, medieval streets of old Paris and the broad boulevards and grand public structures that Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann built in their place for Emperor […]