“In Light of Rome” comprehensively explores the contribution made by the cosmopolitan art center to the early history of photography and traces the medium’s rise there that forever changed the way we perceive the Eternal City. The exhibition ranges from 1842 to 1871, from the earliest pioneers—the French daguerreotypist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey and the Welsh calotypist Calvert Richard Jones—to the work of the Roman School of Photography and its successors, among them James Anderson and Robert Macpherson of Britain; Frédéric Flachéron, Firmin Eugène Le Dien, and Gustave Le Gray of France; and Giacomo Caneva, Adriano de Bonis, and Pietro Dovizielli of Italy. Featuring 112 works, many never before seen publicly, by nearly fifty transnational photographers, this presentation and its accompanying catalogue will expand our understanding of Rome’s place in the evolution of early photography, and the pivotal role it played in the refinement and technical development of the nascent medium in the nineteenth century.
Tue - Sat 10am - 5pm
Thu 10am - 8:30pm
Sun 1pm - 5pm
Mon CLOSED
Open to the public, free admission
Halford Gallery, Bernard & Barbro Osher Gallery
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
9400 College Station
Brunswick, ME
43.896241189668, -69.9724775
In Light of Rome: Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842–1871
