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Photographs In London And Paris: The developing water is so hot I can hardly bear my hands in it."He returned to England in July, a sick man suffering from cholera. Exhibitions were held of the photographs in London and Paris; wood engravings of some of them were printed in the Illustrated London News; prints pasted on paper mounts with engraved titles, were sold by Agnew. The London Times wrote: "The photographer who follows in the wake of modern armies must be content with conditions of repose and with the still life which remains when the fighting is over."Alvin Langdon Coburn, the youngest of the Americ photographers whom Day introduced to London ai Paris in 1900, was born in Boston, and took up ph tography as a boy. He first exhibited when he was fiftee His early photographs were mainly landscapes, vague definition but containing those shimmering lights th became a marked characteristic of his mature style. H first success came with his portraits of writers and ai ists. He began in 1904 with George Bernard Shaw, wl was an enthusiastic amateur photographer. Shaw receiv< him warmly, introduced him to fellow writers, and wro an extravagant preface to the catalog of his exhibition i the Royal Photographic Society in London.
For extended biography consult Avenal, G. d', Richelieu et la monarchie absolue (2d ed., 4 vols., Paris 1895) ; Barriere, J. F., Memoirs of the Duke de Richelieu (New York 1904) ; Caillet, J., UAdministration en France sous le ministere du cardinal de Richelieu (new^ed., 2 vols., Paris 1863); Fagniez, G., Le pere Joseph et Richelieu (2 vols., Paris 1894) ; Hanoteaux, G., Histoire du cardinal de Richelieu (Paris 1893) ; Lodge, R., Richelieu (London 1896) ; Martineau, A., Le cardinal de Richelieu (Paris 1865) ; Perkins, J. B., Richelieu and the Growth of the French Power (New York 1900); Topin, M. J. F., Louis XII et Richelieu (Paris 1885). |
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