Beautiful photos of beautiful sculptures…


Auguste Rodin was born a year after photography had been invented, and between 1870 and 1917 he amassed 7,000 photos! Around the end of the 19th Century, when he was becoming successful, he hired two ‘official’ photographers, Eugène Druet and Jacques-Ernest Bulloz to make sure that his work was presented in the best possible light. Even back then, it seems that artists were careful about promoting themselves…

What Rodin didn’t predict perhaps, is that the beauty of his sculptures would provoke a certain ‘ambiance’ in the these photos. They often have a dream-like feeling to them, and it’s interesting to see how they stand up as works of art themselves.

The Museé Rodin will be showing 200 of these photos, giving a fascinating insight into Rodin’s creative process and a new view of his work.

Here’s all the essential information for the Rodin and photography exhibition

Where: Musée Rodin, 79, rue de Varenne, Paris 7th arrondissement. Métro Varenne (line 13)
When: 14th November 2007 – 2nd March 2008
Opening hours: 9.30am-4.45pm every day except Mondays. Closed 25th December and 1st January
Admission price: Adults 6 euros, concession 4 euros. 1 euro extra to visit the (rather nice) gardens

Click here for the official site of the Musée Rodin. Or click here for the Wikipedia page on Rodin.

And why not have a look at our photos of the Musée Rodin here?

Bigger map here

Rodin photos (c) Musée Rodin. Photo of the gardens by MorganeC