Throughout his career, Rodin maintained an ambiguous relationship with the photographic medium.
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He was probably one of the first artists to understand the importance of photography in making his sculptures better known, leaving a wealth of documentary images and reproductions around his work.
his work. Rodin enthused to Steichen, "You will make the world understand my Balzac through these photographs". Emmanuel Berry's photographic studies convey the expressive power of Rodin's works, but they also reveal a concern for the beginnings of the process: in their independent, yet erudite approach to techniques, and in their desire to renew the thread of questioning that is specific to the process. Betraying little, he extracts and questions the Master's reservations and reuses photography
as a cutting-edge tool, revealing form beyond curves
his work. Rodin enthused to Steichen, "You will make the world understand my Balzac through these photographs". Emmanuel Berry's photographic studies convey the expressive power of Rodin's works, but they also reveal a concern for the beginnings of the process: in their independent, yet erudite approach to techniques, and in their desire to renew the thread of questioning that is specific to the process. Betraying little, he extracts and questions the Master's reservations and reuses photography
as a cutting-edge tool, revealing form beyond curves
He was probably one of the first artists to understand the importance of photography in making his sculptures better known, leaving a wealth of documentary images and reproductions around his work.
his work. Rodin enthused to Steichen, "You will make the world understand my Balzac through these photographs". Emmanuel Berry's photographic studies convey the expressive power of Rodin's works, but they also reveal a concern for the beginnings of the process: in their independent, yet erudite...
his work. Rodin enthused to Steichen, "You will make the world understand my Balzac through these photographs". Emmanuel Berry's photographic studies convey the expressive power of Rodin's works, but they also reveal a concern for the beginnings of the process: in their independent, yet erudite...
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- In the Coudoulière woods
