“It’s not about the particular place, it’s about a state of mind.”
Curator Malcolm Daniel on Roger Fenton’s 1856 photograph [Landscape with Clouds].
Contributors
Malcolm Daniel
Former Senior Curator, Department of Photographs
Former Senior Curator, Department of Photographs
Photography by Eileen Travell
Reading by Tom Lee of "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth
Art Mentioned
On loan to The Met
Roger Fenton
probably 1856
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