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The Lens of Impressionism Photography and Painting on the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874
By Sylvie Aubenas, Stephen Bann, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Carole McNamara et al.
♦ Features more than 100 paintings, photographs, and drawings by some of the most highly regarded and admired Western artists—Courbet, Corot, Manet, Monet, and Degas among them, as well as pioneering photographers Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq
Through a stunning selection of paintings, photographs, and drawings, The Lens of Impressionism argues that a unique convergence of forces—social, artistic, technological, and commercial—along the Normandy coast profoundly impacted the development of early Impressionism and made Normandy a nexus for photographers and the avant-garde painters of the later nineteenth century. As author Carole McNamara writes, “Impressionist painting has always endeavored to convey motion, but new possibilities and solutions were presented by photography . . . if painters were to continue to create works that had relevance to modern audiences, then the expression of time—of ‘instantaneity’—would become an increasingly important consideration in their own work.”
Carole McNamara, is Senior Curator of Western Art, at
the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Sylvie Aubenas,
is Curator of Nineteenth-Century Photography, Bibliothèque
Nationale Française. Stephen Bann, teaches at the University
of Bristol.
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