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...Frenchmen Etienne Carjat and Jean-Eugene-Auguste Atget capture the romanticism of rainy Parisian streets and of distinguished bearded gentlemen. Gertrude Kasebier explores the classic form of mother and child. And Alfred Stieglitz a papa in photographer and a great art lover, introduced the American public to Picasso, Matisse and others. His misty streets in "Glow of Night. N.Y.," and the rippling reflections of "Venetian Doorways," are nicely juxtaposed to point out staccato reflections in wet surfaces...
This criticism seemed even more valid with the advent of photography's "instantaneous" portraiture. Photographs, unlike paintings, were not an integrated synthesis of many observations. Etienne Carjat's photographs of Charles Baudelaire and Giocchino Rossini in the Fogg Exhibition show that by 1865 pictures could come quite close to technical perfection...
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