Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life 1834-1910

Financial Times“A wonderfully scholarly exhibition...” This is magical material, brilliantly displayed. It has many pleasures, among them the small one of obliging the viewer to peer closely at tiny photographs. The National Portrait Gallery would have done well to have magnifying glasses for sale...

this is london“It is impossible not to be dazzled by these time-pieces...” Silvy’s sense of composition and perspective is perfectly illustrated in La Vallée de l’Huisne. Its idyllic river scene was actually a set-up, built from several negatives and tonally altered, shaded and cropped...

Time Out“Camille Silvy's spectacular obscurity is hard to understand...” Somewhere in this canny slavishness lies a clue to Silvy's vast but short-lived success. He was an artist, excited by experimentation but also a businessman, capable of luring the right people before his camera and publicising the fact afterwards...

The Telegraph“What a show. What a gift...” “Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life” is that rare thing – an exhibition that introduces the British public to a major 19th-century artist whose name is hardly known beyond a small circle of curators and collectors...

Guardian“He pioneered a prototype of Facebook...” It is hard to believe there could be any modern masters left who have not yet been thoroughly rediscovered, but so it seems with the wonderful French photographer Camille Silvy. The more one looks at his images the more remarkable this seems.

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