Art and Photography: new images of art

In the mid 1800s, the documentary powers of photography were applied in systematic ways to works of art and architecture by photographers such as James Anderson, Adolphe Braun, the Alinari brothers, Roger Fenton and others.

Soon, large photography enterprises developed for the publication of art reproductions. The photographer took over, not without protest initially, the market of reproductions that belonged to printmakers and painters.

James Anderson (British, 1813 - 1877)
Colossal bust of Antinous from the Villa Adriana, near Tivoli.

James Anderson
Rome, Colosseum and Arch of Costantin landscape
c. 1860, Albumen print
42.2 x 21.5 cm

James Anderson L'Arco di Tito [Rome] c. 1853
Wet-collodion-glass-negative 25.5 x 18.6 cm (10 x 7.5 )

James Anderson - Roman Forum

James Anderson - Arch of Constantine, Rome, c. 1858

James Anderson - Venetian Palace, c. 1870s

Comte Frédéric Flachéron
Rome, The Ara Coeli and the Dioscuri of the Capitol
1851
Salt print from calotype
35.5 x 25.0 cm

Adolphe Braun
Saint John the Baptist by Rodin 1877
albumen print
30 x 24 cm

images:
http://www.clemusart.com/Explore/artist.asp?artistLetter=A&recNo=66&woRecNo=0
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:James_Anderson
http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/James__Anderson/C/
http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/vexhibit/_COLLECTING_Roman_Photographic_School_01/5/0/0/
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/sjeun-e.htm

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