The Challenges that Shaped Photography
The Challenges that Shaped Photography
July 11, 2024
Harold Edgerton, Milk drop coronet, 1957
© Harold Edgerton/MIT, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc., from the Kayafas Collection
The presentation is divided into three sections (‘Infinite Reproduction’, ‘Encapsulating Time’, and ‘Fixing Colour’), with iconic representatives of the medium being featured in each chapter: Constantin Brancusi, who utilised the reproducibility of photography to capture hundreds of interpretations of his sculptures; Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton, who revolutionised photography through his invention of the strobe light; and colour photography pioneers Saul Leiter and Helen Levitt, who transformed reality into poetry through their use of chromatic areas. This is complemented by the works of numerous artists from the early 19th century to the present day.
Harold Edgerton, Milk drop coronet, 1957
© Harold Edgerton/MIT, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc., from the Kayafas Collection
Gustave Le Gray, La Grande Vague à Sète, n° 17, 1857 Photographie sur papier albuminé Collection du Musée barrois, Bar-le-Duc
© Musée barrois / N. Leblanc
Léon Busy pour “Les Archives de la Planète”, Tonkin, 1915 Autochrome, 12 x 9 cm Boulogne-Billancourt, Musée Départemental Albert-Kahn
Laure Albin Guillot, Sans titre, tiré de l’album “Micrographies décoratives”, 1931 Héliogravure, 41,6 x 35,9 cm Chalon-sur-Saône, musée Nicéphore Niépce inv. MNN 2006.30