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| Keywords: Roger Fenton Fruit and Flowers, 1860 Paul Mellon Fund.jpg en Roger Fenton artist British 1819 - 1869 Fruit and Flowers 1860 albumen print from collodion negative Overall 35 5 x 43 cm 14 x 16 15/16 in mount 50 8 x 68 5 cm 20 x 26 15/16 in Paul Mellon Fund National Gallery of Art Brief Guide In the summer of 1860 Fenton made his most deliberate and exacting photographs to date a series of still lifes Although the subject obviously had its roots in painting his densely packed compositions are far removed from the renditions of everyday life by the Dutch masters Instead Fenton extravagantly piled luscious fruits and intricately patterned flowers on top of one another and pushed them to the front of his composition so that they seem almost ready to tumble out of the photograph into the viewer's space It is that very immediacy ”the precarious composition the lush sensuousness of the objects and our knowledge of their imminent decay ”that makes these photographs so striking cs Roger Fenton artist British 1819 - 1869 Fruit and Flowers 1860 albumen print from collodion negative Overall 35 5 x 43 cm 14 x 16 15/16 in mount 50 8 x 68 5 cm 20 x 26 15/16 in Paul Mellon Fund National Gallery of Art Brief Guide In the summer of 1860 Fenton made his most deliberate and exacting photographs to date a series of still lifes Although the subject obviously had its roots in painting his densely packed compositions are far removed from the renditions of everyday life by the Dutch masters Instead Fenton extravagantly piled luscious fruits and intricately patterned flowers on top of one another and pushed them to the front of his composition so that they seem almost ready to tumble out of the photograph into the viewer's space It is that very immediacy ”the precarious composition the lush sensuousness of the objects and our knowledge of their imminent decay ”that makes these photographs so striking http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f object 132371 Creator Roger Fenton 1860 PD-old-100 Roger Fenton | ||||
