Exhibition at the museum
American Landscape in Photographs (1861-1890)
From December 03rd, 1996 to March 02nd, 1997
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Main picture modal
Old Faithfull, Yellowstone, en 1870
Musée d'Orsay
Don de M. Robert Gérard, 1987
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Alexis Brandt
See the notice of the artwork
American landscape photography blossomed with the reports on the Civil War, but it reached maturity with the westward expansion, influenced by painters who took part in geographic and scientific expeditions.
About twenty prints, made at the time of the expansion in the American West by photographers (including Carleton Watkins, William Henry Jackson and George Barker) who were also explorers displayed landscapes of the Rocky Mountains, Yosemite, the Niagara Falls, etc., and made it possible to discover the original wildlife as the first signs of civilisation appeared.
The exhibition is now over.
See the whole program
