The French and English Fleets, Cherbourg, August 1858, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Mount: 21 in. × 26 3/4 in. (53.3 × 68 cm), Photographs, Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884), Le Gray emerged around 1850 as the most important member of a group of French artists that elected photography as an alternative to painting. His technically superior ability to capture momentary effects of light and atmosphere—in seascapes, landscapes, and architectural views—won him critical praise and prestigious commissions and presaged the concerns and pictorial strategies of the Impressionists a decade later
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