Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadere (Getty Museum Studies on Art) [Paperback]

Gordon Baldwin (Author)

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Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art | Publication Date: September 26, 1996

Roger Fenton's photograph Pasha and Bayad�re is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In his rich and detailed study, Baldwin explains how this image of a seated man and a dancing woman embodies themes and motifs that can be found in the work of nineteenth-century artists from Eug�ne Delacroix to John Frederick Lewis to Alfred Lord Tennyson. He has also brought to light significant new information about the life and career of Fenton, the important Victorian photographer best known for his photographs of the Crimean War.

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Gordon Baldwin is associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the author of Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms (Getty and OUP, 1991).

Product Details

• Paperback: 122 pages
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum; 1 edition (September 26, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892363673
• ISBN-13: 978-0892363674
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,052,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Roger Fenton - Photographic Evolution in Victorian England, May 12, 2010

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An interesting read on the styles of photographic arts in the middle of the 1800's in England. The hows and whys of their staged sets trying to depict foreign cultures.