Throughout his career, Rodin had a passion for photography that has remained little known even today. Long before all the other artists, he realized the importance of capturing the creative act. In 1880, eager to make people more aware of his sculptures, he began inviting photographers such as Charles Bodmer, Victor Pannelier and D. Freuler into his studio. 
Some years later, Eugène Druet and Jacques-Ernest Bulloz, among others, would also record the evolution of his works: a poetic atmosphere emanated from their photographs, to which Rodin occasionally added highlights in pencil or with a brush.
 
In the early 20th century, this prolific body of documentary images was joined by a series of more personal views by Pictorialist photographers. Stephen Haweis and Henry Coles, Jean Limet and Edward Steichen had a different way of looking at Rodin's works. For them, sculpture was a subject to be interpreted artistically, not faithfully reproduced. Not only did the work have to be attractive but also their vision of it. 
An unprecedented and unexpected exploration of Rodin's career through the hundreds of photographs compiled for the first time in this book.

Joint-publication musée Rodin / Gallimard
Author: Collective
Size: 21 x 27 cm
224 pages, 230 ill. colour
Paperback
Language: French
Publication date: 2007
EAN: 9782070119097