Auguste Salzmann 1824-1872
Jerusalem, Enceinte du Temple, Porte herodienne, 1854
Salt print mounted on card
33 x 23.4 cms
12 15/16 x 9 3/16 ins
12 15/16 x 9 3/16 ins
1764
Salzmann's strikingly abstract images are a remarkably modernist response to the Holy Land. Although his motives were scientific, Salzmann's vision anticipates Modernism with its bold formalism in the structuring of...
Salzmann's strikingly abstract images are a remarkably modernist response to the Holy Land.
Although his motives were scientific, Salzmann's vision anticipates Modernism with its bold formalism in the structuring of pictoral elements, cropping, framing and lighting.
Salzmann's photographs of Jerusalem were printed in 1854 and privately distributed and published for commercial sale in 1856 as Jerusalem; Etude et reproduction photographiqeu des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l'epoque judaique jusqu'a nos jours.
Although his motives were scientific, Salzmann's vision anticipates Modernism with its bold formalism in the structuring of pictoral elements, cropping, framing and lighting.
Salzmann's photographs of Jerusalem were printed in 1854 and privately distributed and published for commercial sale in 1856 as Jerusalem; Etude et reproduction photographiqeu des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l'epoque judaique jusqu'a nos jours.