Enclosure Of Temple, West Side Heit-El-Morharby, Jerusalem
Catalogue
- Year
- 1853
- Medium
- Calotype
- Dimensions
- 9 1/8 × 13 1/8" (23.2 × 33.4 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Auguste Salzmann
Artist
Printmaking
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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- Auguste Salzmann
- Year
- 1853
- Medium
- Calotype
- Dimensions
- 9 1/8 × 13 1/8" (23.2 × 33.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1853-M041711
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
- verified