![]() ![]() ![]() The show’s title, “All the Mighty World,” which takes its name from a phrase in a poem by William Wordsworth praising the temporal aesthetic, aptly captures the spirit of the exhibit. ![]() And his photographs, nearly 100 of which are now on view at the National Gallery of Art, do little to upset his sense of idyllic romanticism.īut while his pictures - of architecture, the Royal Family, rushing streams, undulant landscapes and museum artifacts - hardly aimed to rock the proverbial boat, they still pullulate with a refined mystique. Through his lens, the Crimean War was largely a bloodless affair, the bucolic Welsh countryside untouched by modernity, and Fenton himself a dead ringer for a Turkish pasha.įenton was, after all, a Victorian of the first order: wealthy and nationalistic with a patriotic sense of propriety. The 19th century British photographer Roger Fenton was a master of illusion. ![]()
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