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Arles (Bouche-du-Rhône) -- Interior View of the Amphitheater
Edouard Baldus French, born Prussia
Not on view
While traveling in the south of France on a government commission to document the nation’s architectural treasures, Baldus devised an ingenious technique for producing large panoramic photographs, suturing together portions of multiple paper negatives like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. This negative depicting a group of tourists with sketchpads in the Roman amphitheater at Arles was originally conceived as one segment of a five-part panorama. Although the final panorama no longer survives, this composite of two paper negatives—one showing the interior of the amphitheater, another the posed figures—demonstrates the photographer’s painstaking attempt to insert an intimate, picturesque scene in a monumental vista—a feat that would have been impossible to accomplish with a single exposure.
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