This exhibition celebrates the visual links between early photography and British art, bringing together fascinating vintage photographs and stunning paintings including Pre-Raphaelite, aesthetic and impressionist works.
Zaida Ben-Yusuf The Odor of Pomegranates 1899, published 1901 Photogravure on paper Tate
Minna Keene Decorative Study c.1906 Carbon Print © Royal Photographic Society / National Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library
Julia Margaret Cameron Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die 1867 © Royal Photographic Society / National Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beata Beatrix
(c.1864–70)
Tate
Frederick Goodall, R.A. The Song of the Nubian Slave 1863 Diploma Work, accepted 1863 71.20 x 92.0 x 2.30 cm Oil on canvas Photo credit: © Royal Academy of Arts, London; Photographer: John Hammond
Roger Fenton The Water Carrier 1858 Albumen Print, Wilson Center for Photography
Thomas Ogle The Bowder Stone in ‘Our English Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls as seen by William Wordsworth’ by A.W. Bennett, Published 1864 Tate
John Singer Sargent
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
(1885–6)
Tate
John Cimon Warburg, 1867–1931 , Peggy in the Garden, 1909, printed 2016, Photograph, transparency on lightbox from autochrome, Royal Photographic Society / National Media Museum / Science and Society Picture Library
Peter Henry Emerson and Thomas Goodall Setting the Bow Net 1885
Private Collection
Thomas Goodall The Bow-Net 1886
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge
(c.1872–5)
Tate
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mariana, 1870, Oil on canvas, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum Collection
Spanning 75 years across the Victorian and Edwardian ages, the exhibition showcases the experimental beginnings of photography right through to its flowering as an independent international art form. These are displayed alongside the paintings which they inspired and which inspired them.
This is the first time works by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, JAM Whistler, John Singer Sargent and others will be shown alongside photographs by pivotal early photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Alvin Langdon Coburn.
