Re-Picturing the Picturesque blog and virtual tour
University of Michigan-Flint Associate Professor of Art Darryl Baird is embarking on an ambitious photographic tour he’s been planning for three years: ” ‘Re-Picturing the Picturesque‘ … a retracing of an early “Picturesque” tour of the Wye River valley undertaken by Reverend William Gilpin in 1770. … My tour will look at the intervening 200+ years of tourism, transportation and, of course, the evolution of photographic traditions and practices. Since the original tour precedes photography’s invention by nearly seventy years, I’m visiting the original sites and looking at the journals (and sketches). watercolors, prints (etchings), picture postcards, and ephemera which developed as a result of the picturesque and pictorial conventions of those two centuries. Photographers Roger Fenton, Francis Frith, Francis Bedford, Frederick Scott Archer, Noverre, W. L., and even W. H. Talbot visited the Wye River.”
Source: PhotoHistory@yahoogroups.com, 02005 08 25
