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The Meet the Impressionists: Monet, Renoir and Normandy Masters Exhibition opened at the MeetYou Museum in Beijing. The exhibition showcases 54 paintings by 34 artists, including Monet, Delacroix, Renoir, Courbet, Corot and others, leading visitors through the golden age of 19th century Western paintings.
In the 1850s, as photography took its first steps toward commercial reproducibility, a more intimate use for light-sensitive plates briefly bloomed. It had a few names: heliographic drawing, photographic autography, or, as it is best known today, cliché-verre. Miya Tokumitsu takes us to the towns and forests of France where a group of friends began making marks on photographic plates, and finds their camaraderie cohere in lyrical arrangements of topography and light.