PAINTERS_EYE_MUSEUM

June 22 - July 21

PHOTOGRAPHY UNTIL NOW: The Painter's Eye

Opening Reception: June 22nd, Friday from 6-10pm

FOTOMUSEUM DETROIT

Pierre Bonnard

Paul Cezanne

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Gustave Courbet

Edgar Degas

Eugene Delacroix

Far from seeing photography as a potential rival to painting, Delacroix took a keen interest in the development of this new medium, following its technical progress with sufficient curiosity to become a founding member of the Heliographic Society in 1851. He amassed a considerable photographic collection – of frescoes by Raphael, paintings by Rubens, and cathedral sculptures. Moreover, although he did not use a camera himself, a series of male and female nude models were photographed at his request by Eugène Durieu, in 1854.

Marcel Duchamp

studies and cast for Étant donnés

Black Dahlia crime scene photo and finished Étant donnés

Thomas Eakins

Paul Gauguin

Frida Kahlo

Jean-Auguste Ingres

This daguerreotype of Ingres's canvas, a unique image (as all daguerreotypes are), was discovered only about 10 years ago in a drawer in Ingres's desk, which is in a museum in his hometown, Montauban, France. It will be shown for the first time in the United States, along with many other treasures, in the Met's splendid exhibition, ''The Dawn of Photography: French Daguerreotypes, 1839-1853.''

Ingres (1780-1867) commissioned daguerreotypes of some of his paintings, was reported by contemporaries to have sent some of his portrait subjects to be photographed and eventually agreed to have photographs of his art made and sold. This image, probably taken in 1852, wasn't for sale. The model for the painting was his first wife, who had slipped off her clothes and modeled for him frequently; Ingres had painted this picture of her in the 1820's. It has long since disappeared.

Claude Monet

Alphonse Mucha

Nabis

Given that the Nabis are not often given enough credit for being modern, it is noteworthy that they experimented with photography, the modern medium par excellence. Kodak snapshots of family and friends made by Vuillard, Bonnard, Vallotton and Denis show that the artists approached photography basically as having fun with the camera, but with an artist’s eye also. The Nabis eventually took inspiration from them with regard to subject and composition. Some famous paintings were clearly modeled on snapshots, especially in the cases of Denis and Vallotton.

Pablo Picasso