The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875

As photography steadily gained a foothold in the 1840s, a group of British painters calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelites came of age. Answering John Ruskin's call to study nature, "rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing," these young painters were also spurred on by the possibilities of the new medium (introduced in 1839), particularly its ability to capture every nuance, every detail. And yet, the Pre-Raphaelites' debt to photography has barel... >Voir plus