Photo courtesy of Laura Fragomeni
Artist-at-Work: Performing Bayard
GETTY CENTER
Sunday, May 5, 2024, from 11 am - 12:30 pm
Museum Courtyard
Free
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Join photographer Francesco Fragomeni as he recreates Hippolyte Bayard’s famed photograph, Le Noyé [The Drowned Man] (1840), using Bayard’s own invention—the direct positive process. This exercise in endurance performance art highlights Bayard’s extraordinary determination as he made his most celebrated image—a protest against the French King and the Academy of Sciences. Curator Carolyn Peter will be on hand to describe the process and answer questions.
This is a free, drop-in program, complementing the exhibition Hippolyte Bayard: A Persistent Pioneer.
About the Artist
Francesco Fragomeni is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and photographic historian. His work is informed by early 19th-century photographic processes and his research focuses on early achievements in photography and the development of the processes and technologies that drove them. Fragomeni’s work is also informed by his experiences with traumatic brain injury and neurodivergence. He aims to create work that encourages discourse, thoughtfulness, and connection across boundaries.