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Sculpture in the Age of Photography
by Martina Droth
Like his fellow Pre-Raphaelites, Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) came of artistic age with the invention of photography. His work has been little studied, but the exhibition Thomas Woolner: Seeing Sculpture Through Photography, at the Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, England, November 5, 2005– February 5, 2006), sheds new light on the sculptor’s attentive engagement with photography, both as a means of recording his work and as a commercial tool for disseminating images of his sculptures. Taking as its starting point archive research by Joanne Lukitsh, carried out during a fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute in 2003, the exhibition presents Woolner as a case study for exploring the role that printed reproductions played in the career of a mid-nineteenth-century sculptor....
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