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Exhibition: Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography

Location

National Portrait Gallery,

St Martin's Place, London,
WC2H 0HE

Dates

This exhibition CLOSED on Sun, 20th May 2018

This exhibition has finished.

Cost: £12

Description

This major new exhibition brings together, for the first time, the works of four of the most celebrated figures in art photography, Lewis Carroll (1832–98), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79), Oscar Rejlander (1813–75) and Clementina Hawarden (1822-65). These four artists would come to embody the very best in photography of the Victorian era. Their experimental approach to picture-making and radical attitudes towards photography have informed artistic practice ever since.

Featuring striking portraits of sitters such as Charles Darwin, Alice Liddell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Carlyle, George Frederick Watts, Ellen Terry and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.


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Location

National Portrait Gallery,

St Martin's Place, London,
WC2H 0HE

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