Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
2002.07.4
Jerusalem-Vasques de Salomon, vue générale
1856 (Date created)
Wax paper negative?
Photograph
Prints, photographic
17.375 in W x 14 in H(Object)
French
Photograph published by Gide and J. Baudry and by Blanquard Evrard
A painter of landscapes and religious scenes and a keen archaeologist, Salzman was fascinated by the Middle East from an early age. He visited Italy and Algeria with his friend Eugène Fromentin, and he was in Egypt at the time of the excavations of Auguste Mariette (1821-81). Taking advantage of a mission supported by the Ministère de l'Instruction Publique, he decided to set off for the Holy Land at the end of 1853. In his desire to support the disputed theses of the archaeologist Louis Félicien Caignart de Saulcy (1807-80) concerning the age and appearance of the monuments there, in 1854 he brought back from his trip c. 200 calotypes. The album Jérusalem (published 1855-6) contained 174 of them. In 1863, he set off again with de Saulcy to carry out more intensive research, and his photographs were used to illustrate the archaeologist's articles. (From exhibition label)
In 1854, he was commissioned by the Ministry of Public Instruction to visit Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the islands of the Archipelago to study the locations of the Crusades and to photograph historical monuments left by the knights of the Order of Saint John in Jerusalem and Rhodes. He returned to Paris in the middle of that year with over 200 paper negatives of which 174 were printed by Blanquart-Evrard's printing establishment Imprimerie Photographique and published in 1856 in two volumes by Gide and Baudry as Jérusalem. Etude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la Ville Sainte depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours par Auguste Salzmann, chargé par le Ministère de l'instruction publique d'une mission scientifique en Orient.
From 1858 to 1867, Salzmann devoted himself to archaeological work in Rhodes and continued to photograph. In 1863, he embarked on his second photographic trip to Jerusalem.
The ten photographs offered here were printed in 1856 for Salzmann's seminal publication Jérusalem. 'Blanquart-Evrard' process print - a modification of Talbot's calotype process to produce a developed-out paper print - was introduced in 1847 by the French photographer and founder of Imprimerie Photographique Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
Salzmann's artistry as a painter-photographer combined with his precison as an archaeologist created a unique vision. These early photographs of the Holy Land are more than precise documents; they are works of art which exude emotional power.
In 1854, he was commissioned by the Ministry of Public Instruction to visit Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the islands of the Archipelago to study the locations of the Crusades and to photograph historical monuments left by the knights of the Order of Saint John in Jerusalem and Rhodes. He returned to Paris in the middle of that year with over 200 paper negatives of which 174 were printed by Blanquart-Evrard's printing establishment Imprimerie Photographique and published in 1856 in two volumes by Gide and Baudry as Jérusalem. Etude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la Ville Sainte depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours par Auguste Salzmann, chargé par le Ministère de l'instruction publique d'une mission scientifique en Orient.
From 1858 to 1867, Salzmann devoted himself to archaeological work in Rhodes and continued to photograph. In 1863, he embarked on his second photographic trip to Jerusalem.
The ten photographs offered here were printed in 1856 for Salzmann's seminal publication Jérusalem. 'Blanquart-Evrard' process print - a modification of Talbot's calotype process to produce a developed-out paper print - was introduced in 1847 by the French photographer and founder of Imprimerie Photographique Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
Salzmann's artistry as a painter-photographer combined with his precison as an archaeologist created a unique vision. These early photographs of the Holy Land are more than precise documents; they are works of art which exude emotional power.
In Collection
Anonymous Gift (see Notes)
Purchased fron Jammes, André (Librarie Paul Jammes, Paris, France)
Purchased fron Jammes, André (Librarie Paul Jammes, Paris, France)
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