Plaster Cast from the Depaulis Collection
1854 · salted paper print from waxed paper negative
Image: 34.8 x 25.4 cm (13 11/16 x 10 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Henri Le Secq
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18
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30
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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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Edward Steichen Photography Center
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962
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Henri Le Secq was a French photographer and painter who pioneered the calotype and salt print processes in the mid-nineteenth century. He documented French cathedrals and ironwork with precise attention to light, texture, and structural geometry, elevating technical documentation toward aesthetic investigation. His photographs reveal a formal concern with architectural detail and industrial form that anticipated later modernist approaches to composition and surface.
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