Adelina Patti as La Somnambula, 1880-1881.(Patti was a highly acclaimed Opera diva of the time)
Photograph (c) National Portrait Gallery, London
Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies, Goddaughter of Queen Victoria, with her husband James Pinson Labulo Davies. September 15, 1862. Photograph (c) National Portrait Gallery, London
Camille Silvy with a Boy, August 1859Photograph (c) National Portrait Gallery, London
View of the House, ca 1862Photograph (c) National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry Ker Seymer's Dog, 1860(HKS was a Member of Parliament for Dorset)
Photograph (c) National Portrait Gallery, London
CAMILLE SILVY
Photographer of Modern Life: 1834-1910
Photographer of Modern Life: 1834-1910
"Camille Silvy was a pioneer of early photography and one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century. Working under the patronage of Queen Victoria, Silvy photographed royalty, aristocrats and celebrities. He also portrayed uncelebrated people, the professional classes and country gentry, their wives, children and servants. The results offer a unique glimpse into nineteenth-century society through the eyes of one of photography's outstanding innovators.
This exhibition includes many remarkable images which have not been exhibited since the 1860s. The over 100 images, including a large number of carte de visites, focus on a ten-year creative burst from 1857-67 working in Algiers, rural France, Paris and London, and illustrates how Silvy pioneered many now familiar branches of the medium including theatre, fashion and street photography."
This exhibition includes many remarkable images which have not been exhibited since the 1860s. The over 100 images, including a large number of carte de visites, focus on a ten-year creative burst from 1857-67 working in Algiers, rural France, Paris and London, and illustrates how Silvy pioneered many now familiar branches of the medium including theatre, fashion and street photography."
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