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Enchanted Tableaus:

Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Collection of Maurice Sendak

October 7, 2003 - January 4, 2004

Collectors have always considered the earliest photographs to be the most desirable reminiscences of the heady days of experimentation in the 1840s and 1850s. One of the finest private collections in existence today has been assembled by the distinguished author and artist Maurice Sendak. It features photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Calvert Richard Jones, Gustave LeGray, Roger Fenton, and Henri LeSecq, as well as later nineteenth-century photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron and Charles Dodgson, among others. From ghostly portraits to brooding landscapes, Sendak's photographs - never before seen by the public - demonstrate the unique and unerring eye of a master collector at work.