Artist
Burton & Co.
Burton & Co. is an Impressionism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Burton & Co. turned Victorian London’s backstage chaos into high art. Their photos feel less like stiff portraits and more like candid snapshots of actors mid-change, corsets half-laced, wigs askew, caught between drama and real life. You’ll get why actors loved them: flip through Guy Little Theatrical Photograph (1878) and you’ll see the sweat behind the sparkle.
Hunt down the originals at Harvard’s Houghton Library to watch those 140-year-old faces blink out from the past.
Works by Burton & Co.
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