Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadère

$20.00 at The Getty Museum.

Gordon Baldwin Roger Fenton's photograph Pasha and Bayadère is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In his rich and detailed study, the author explains how this image of a seated man and a dancing woman embodies themes and motifs that can be found in the work of nineteenth-century artists from Eugène Delacroix to John Frederick Lewis to Alfred Lord Tennyson. He has also brought to…