"It's not about the particular place, it's about a state of mind."
Curator Malcolm Daniel on Roger Fenton's photograph "{Landscape with Clouds}."
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"It's not about the particular place, it's about a state of mind."
Malcolm Daniel
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Malcolm Daniel
Former Senior Curator, Department of Photographs
Former Senior Curator, Department of Photographs
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Roger Fenton
probably 1856