Thursday, April 10, 2008 Photography's Early History Revealed at the National Gallery of Art WASHINGTON, DC.- The first exhibition to explore photographs made from paper negatives-calotypes-in Great Britain in the 1840s and 1850s, Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860, will be on view from February 3 through May 4, 2008, in the West Building photography galleries. The exhibition features 120 calotypes, many of which have never before been exhibited or published in the United States, made by about forty artists. Included are works by such masters as the process' inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), Roger Fenton (1819- 1869), and David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848), as well as by dozens of previously unknown photographers. The calotype process introduced the ability to make multiple copies of a photograph, as compared to its initial competition, the one-of-a-kind daguerreotype. The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The National Gallery of Art is the second venue for this exhibition, which premiered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 24 through December 31, 2007. The exhibition travels to the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, May 26 through September 14, 2008. The exhibition is presented in four parts: (of which) ''Under an Indian Sky'' offers images of the exotic 19th-century British colonies of India and Burma. In their time, calotypes such as the stark Children's Graves, India (1848) by Alfred Huish (b. 1811- unknown), and John Murray's (1809-1898) panoramic The Taj Mahal from the Gateway (January-March 1864) brought the first photographic scenes from the far reaches of the British Empire to the West. http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23825 ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India