Émile Angier
Photography Gallery Fund
Catalogue
- Year
- 1875
- Medium
- Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 2
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 23.7 × 19.2 cm (9 3/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 25.9 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon was a French sculptor and pioneering photographer of the 19th century. Born in 1818, he worked primarily in marble and bronze, creating portrait busts and monumental figures that defined Second Empire neoclassical practice. He later became instrumental in establishing photography as a fine art medium, treating the camera with the formal precision and philosophical ambition he had applied to sculpture. His photographic portraits, rendered with careful attention to light and material surface, bridged the aesthetics of traditional portraiture and the emerging technical possibilities of the photographic process.
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Record
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- 1875
- Medium
- Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 2
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 23.7 × 19.2 cm (9 3/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 25.9 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1875-013034
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified