Jérusalem: Église de Sainte Marie Madeleine (Jerusalem: Church of St. Mary Magdalene)
1854 · salted paper print
image/sheet: 23.5 × 33 cm (9 1/4 × 13 in.)
mount: 44.9 × 59.6 cm (17 11/16 × 23 7/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Auguste Salzmann
French, 1824
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17
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24
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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Photography: Recent Acquisitions, 1974�1976
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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Edward Steichen Photography Center
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Auguste Salzmann was a French photographer and archaeologist active in the mid-19th century, best known for his early photographic documentation of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Working with the calotype process in the 1850s, he produced some of the earliest systematic photographic records of archaeological sites and architectural remains in the Eastern Mediterranean. His work bridged the emerging medium of photography with scholarly archaeological practice during a period when the two disciplines were only beginning to intersect.
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