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Degas' Other Passion |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: Judith Bell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,007 Words, 13,994 Characters |
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Edgar Degas, Photographer will be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, through January 3, 1999, and then travels to the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, February 2--March 28 and the Biblioth¸que National de France, Paris, May 11--July 31. Judith Bell is an arts writer, critic, and historian currently based in the Washington, D.C., area. vbcrlf Volumes upon volumes have been written about Edgar Degas, one of the recognized masters of nineteenth-century painting, yet his work in photography remains largely unknown. In the mid-1890s, after creating the majority of his paintings and experimenting with pastel and monotype, Degas briefly focused on photography, producing a small body of pictures that fascinate and ...
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...nd mercurial interests," notes Daniel. "Like the monotypes, the photography was an idea that consumed him, and he worked passionately with it for a time, and then he went on to do something else."vbcrlf Although his photography work is limited, such a diverse creative activity does provide another window into the creative genius that was Degas. vbcrlf
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