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Like Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet in the previous generation of French painters, Bonnard (1867-1947) was born into the high bourgeoisie (his father served in the upper echelons of the War Ministry), and like those painters he had a taste for the demimonde.
Degas' enthusiasm for photography can't conceal the morbid undertow of his request.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has assembled the 40 or so known photographs by Degas, all dated (with an occasional "probable" added) during the years 1895-96.
At a time when the Kodak camera and roll film (first introduced in 1888) made the instantaneous "snapshot aesthetic" possible, Degas opted for an older approach: the pose held for two or three minutes, the long exposure, the "atmospheric" effects of lamplight on a black ground.
It is Spencer's small-town Englishness, more remote and more visually unfamiliar than Degas' Paris or Picasso's Spain, that makes him difficult to grasp.