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Paris, France 1854
unlike paintings and sculptures, photography of architecture can not be faked
these art hisotrians questions don't help to add deeper meaning to the piece unless we were looking at the achitecture and not the photography
Photography
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: 21.5 x 15.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.) Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2000
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“the shape and structure, either two dimensions…or three dimensions” (Kleiner, 2014 )
The term composition “refers to how an artist composes (organizes) forms of art work, either by placing shapes on a flat surface or arraigning forms in space” (Kleiner, 2014)
The next set of terms is materials, which is what the artist used “to create the art form” (Kleiner, 2014)
technique, which simply put is the method to how it was created.
since this piece is a photograph it is two-dimentional but the 3-D effect that is achieved is great for such early photography! the structure of the actual building with the use of light helps to aid in this effect
the actual print is salted paper from a paper negative. I was unable to find the format of the camera used. If I had to guess I would say large format. "Marville’s keen ability to harness the play of light, especially against three-dimensional surfaces, made him a sought-after photographer of architecture and sculpture."
F. S. Kleiner (Ed.), Gardner’s art through the ages: The Western perspective (14th ed., Vol. II, p. 2-7). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning
Marville, Charles, 1854. South Portal, Chartes Cathedral [salted paper print from paper negative , 21.5 x 15.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Galleries (http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries)