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Process and Perception

Jerry Uelsmann, whose work is included in the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, describes his influences and his evolution as an artist. Using multiple projectors and darkroom techniques, he creates dreamlike images that are considered precursors to manipulated photographs created using Photoshop.

Recorded October 14, 2012

Part of a Sunday at the Met program held in conjunction with the exhibition, on view October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe. The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Pont en Royans

Édouard Baldus (French, born Prussia, 1813–1889)

Date:: ca. 1859
Medium:: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions:: Image: 43.2 x 33.9 cm. (17 x 13 3/6 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Louis V. Bell Fund, 1992
Accession Number:: 1992.5003

This artwork is not on display

Description

The cliff-bound town of Pont-en-Royans-where residents lowered buckets and nets into the river from their cantilevered houses-was a well-known destination for those visiting the picturesque sites of France. Baldus pushed the town to the very top of his picture and banished the horizon altogether, focusing on the rough rock surfaces of the ravine with a realism rivaled only by Courbet.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, LR: "Pont en Royans (Isère)"
Provenance

Private collection, Burgundy; Léon Hirschtritt, Paris, 1991; Robert Hershkowitz, London, 1991.
Notes

See acquisition papers in object file for full discussion. Another print of this image, in poor condition, exists in the Musée d'Orsay.
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Who
Édouard Baldus (157)
What
Photographs (32,550)

Salted paper prints (1,573)
Where
Europe (148,586)

France (52,276)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
Photographs (29,384)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Industrialization of French Photography after 1860

Nadar (1820–1910)

The Rise of Paper Photography in 1850s France

Édouard Baldus (1813–1889)

Mission Héliographique, 1851

Louis–Rémy Robert (1810–1882)

France, 1800–1900 A.D.
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