id: 157871 accession number: 1995.199.24.i share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.24.i updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:21.765000 Camera Work: The Letter, 1908. Guido Rey (Italian, 1860–1935). Photogravure; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum Appropriation 1995.199.24.i title: Camera Work: The Letter title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1908 creation date earliest: 1908 creation date latest: 1908 current location: creditline: Museum Appropriation copyright: --- culture: Italy, 20th century technique: photogravure department: Photography collection: PH - Photogravure type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Guido Rey (Italian, 1860–1935) - artist Guido Rey Italian, 1860-1935 Guido Rey began photographing mountain landscapes around 1885. Although influenced by photographers Emilio Gallo, Vittorio Besso, and his cousin, Vittorio Sella, Rey turned to the classical world for inspiration around 1893, studying antique architecture, furniture, and costumes to give his work an authenticity and spirit that would impress photographers Wilhelm von Gloeden and Baron von Pluschkow. Rey exhibited his classically inspired work in 1898, winning a gold medal at the National Exposition in his native Turin. By 1902, however, having internalized the paintings of Jan Vermeer, he began to incorporate a new poeticism in his photographs, creating luminescent and strong chiaroscuro effects within intimate, domestic arrangements. That year, in the exhibition Fotografia Artistica, he was lauded by his contemporaries for his fresh approach. Through his written contributions to the Studio, exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and London, and inclusion of two photographs in Camera Work in 1908, Rey became of the best known Italian pictorialists. K.L.C. --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.199.24.i/1995.199.24.i_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.199.24.i/1995.199.24.i_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1995.199.24.i/1995.199.24.i_full.tif