Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadére

by Gordon Baldwin

Overview

Roger Fenton's photograph Pasha and Bayadére is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In his rich and detailed study, Baldwin explains how this image of a seated man and a dancing woman embodies themes and motifs that can be found in the work of nineteenth-century artists from Eugéne Delacroix to John Frederick Lewis to Alfred Lord Tennyson. He has also brought to light significant new information about the life and career of Fenton, the important Victorian photographer best known for his photographs of the Crimean War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892363674
Publisher:	Getty Publications
Publication date:	09/26/1996
Series:	Getty Museum Studies on Art
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Gordon Baldwin is associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the author of Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms (Getty and OUP, 1991).