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Became A Friend Of Auguste: At the 1900 Exposition in Paris an entire building was given up to the display of Rodin's works. In addition to his marble and bronze figures were many water-color drawings and etchings. Further illustrating the versatility of his genius are a number of writings on various subjects, of which the most notable is (Les cathedrales de France1 (1914). Consult Marx, (Auguste Rodin, Ceramiste' (Paris 1907) ; Lawton, F., 'Life and Work of Auguste Rodin' (New York 1907) ; Dirks, R., 'Auguste Rodin> (Paris 1913) ; Bulletin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Supplement (New York, May 1912) ; Harris, F., (Contemporary Portraits' (New York 1915) ; Benedite, L., 'Rodin' (N. Y. 1927).
He became a friend of Auguste Rodin and made many portraits of him; a combination gum print from two negatives of the sculptor silhouetted in front of his bust of Victor Hugo and facing The Thinker was widely exhibited. He also made a series of nudes that, in their strong contrast of brilliantly lighted flesh against deep-shadowed, almost black backgrounds, aroused the scorn of critics, including George Bernard Shaw.
Photographic expeditions were undertaken all over the world. Desire Charnay, a French archaeologist, photographed the pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico and Yucatan in 1857, and native life on the island of Madagascar six years later. Samuel Bourne climbed the Himalayas with a train of thirty coolies bearing the baggage and photographic equipment to an altitude of 15,000 feet in 1863. The brothers Louis Auguste and Auguste Rosalie Bisson went from Paris to Switzerland with Napoleon III ind the Empress Eugenic and produced a dazzling series of photographs of the Alps in I860.
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