An Shih-kao
An Shih-kao (d. 170 ce). A Parthian
monk who migrated to
China in 148 and settled in the capital of
Lo-yang. He set himself to the task of translating Buddhist texts into Chinese, according to some accounts producing over 30 translations in the 22 years remaining to his life. Much of his output consisted of
meditation texts.
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All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Afterimage; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...MIGHTY WORLD: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROGER FENTON, 1852-1860, BY GORDON BALDWIN...1850s the Victorian photographer Roger Fenton (1819-1869) took the new technology...Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860" concentrate on...
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Roger Fenton, Extending the Front Lines of Photography
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/16/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...museum's current show, a retrospective of the work of Roger Fenton, a 19th-century English practitioner little known...direction. "All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852- 1860," which opens tomorrow, is the first...
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 "USA Today (Magazine)")
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The mighty world of Roger Fenton.(Focus on Photography)(All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 8/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860." It brings together...preserved works. Together they reveal Fenton (1819-1869) as a towering figure...reportage, and tableau-vivant. Fenton was influenced profoundly by the...
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The Mighty World of Roger Fenton
Magazine article from: USA Today; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY The Mighty World of Roger Fenton THE MOST CELEBRATED and influential photographer in...exhibition "All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860." It brings together 90 of the artist...
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Empirical endeavors: working for just eight intense years, Britain's Roger Fenton expanded the range of early photography and helped to professionalize the field.(PHOTOGRAPHY)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...short and very active career, Roger Fenton (1819-1869) took photography...a model for the development of Fenton's career. A traveling exhibition...Mighty World: The Photography of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860," along with an...
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IN HIS EARLY IMAGES, FLASHES OF THE FUTURE ROGER-FENTON'S 19TH-CENTURY PHOTOS CONVEY A NEW MEDIUM'S POSSIBILITIES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...seem to be nothing radical about Roger Fenton (1819-1869), the greatest...Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860," which runs at...Museum of Art through Aug. 21. "Roger Fenton"? The name could hardly be bettered...
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The best of failed painters: the exhibition of Roger Fenton's photographs that opens at Tate Britain this month reveals to David Platzer the influence of Turner, Ingres and English Romantic poetry.(Exhibitions)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...interested in the history of photography, Roger Fenton is remembered, if at all, for his...a mill-owning family in 1819, Fenton was called to the bar but preferred...equal to painting. It is easy to see Fenton as a failed painter seeking success...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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BRAND NEW BALMORAL; (1) Self-portrait: Roger Fenton and, below, his picture of Prince Alfred (2) Building sight: Fenton's photo of Balmoral still under construction. It would be a happy home for Victoria and Albert, pictured right by Fenton in 1854. He also took photographs of Princesses Helena and Louise, left, and Balmoral estate workers, below.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...by pioneering British photographer Roger Fenton, it forms part of a collection of...thousands of tourists. It is far from Fenton's only picture of the Royals and...out on the estate. A collection of Fenton's work is now being exhibited in...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Fenton, first of the war photographers EXHIBITION; Roger Fenton: Photographs 1852-60 Tate Britain.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/30/2005; 408 words
; ...earliest photographers opens with Roger Fenton's credentials spelled out: lawyer...Society, favourite of Victoria. Fenton was born in 1819, in Bury, Lancashire...record of the Crimean War brought Fenton exclusive commissions from Queen...
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All the mighty world: the photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860.(General News)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: PSA Journal; 7/1/2005; 545 words
; Roger Fenton's (1819-1869) work, the most celebrated and influential photographer...through August 21, 2005. This major loan exhibition will unite 90 of Fenton's finest works from American and European collections, representing...
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Roger Fenton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Roger Fenton 1819-69, English pioneer photographer. Originally a barrister, Fenton worked from the early 1850s until 1862 as...photography as both an art and a profession. Fenton had a strong interest in Orientalist subjects...
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Fenton, Roger
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Fenton, Roger (1819–69) English photographer whose carefully composed portraits and landscape studies earned him enduring acclaim. In 1855, he became one of the first war photographers, with a series of plates of the Crimean War.
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Photography, Military
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...lulls, to illustrate their accounts of the action. During the Crimean War (1854 – 1856) the Englishman Roger Fenton became the first person to photograph battlefield scenes under fire. Because of bulky equipment and slow photographic...
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war photographers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...sides, like war correspondents with whom they often worked closely, recorded just about every aspect of the war. Roger Fenton, Queen Victoria's court photographer, was the first war photographer when he covered the Crimean War (1854...
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Photography, War and the Military in
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...However, several images exist by chance, depicting groups of U.S. soldiers in camp or en route. James Robertson and Roger Fenton of Great Britain began the systematic photography of war with their work in the Crimea (1854–55) and at...
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