Jérusalem, Village de Siloam, Vue générale

Salzmann recorded the entire town of Siloam in a single view. Framed by bands of earth and sky, the village appears as striations of stones embedded in a steep hill. Seemingly as vacant as Bethlehem (pictured in the plate at left), this town, too, drew Salzmann’s attention for its associations with biblical sites—in particular, the healing waters of the Pool of Siloam.

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  • Title: Jérusalem, Village de Siloam, Vue générale
  • Artist: Auguste Salzmann (French, 1824–1872)
  • Printer: Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille (French, active 1851–55)
  • Date: 1854
  • Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
  • Dimensions: Image: 23.2 x 32.2 cm (9 1/8 x 12 11/16 in.)
    Mount: 44.5 x 60 cm (17 1/2 x 23 5/8 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.100.373.37
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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