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A Canal in Venice, Italy

c. 1900–1920

Edward Crosby Doughty

(American, 1877–1952)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 19.5 x 24 cm (7 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.); Mounted: 29.1 x 32.6 cm (11 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Edd A. Ruggles 1972.1088
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Edward Crosby Doughty was trained as an architect but became a photographer specializing in architectural, landscape, and garden images.

Description

Doughty printed this image on translucent tissue. The light bouncing through the tissue and off the paper mount enhances the luminosity of water and sky. In keeping with the approach of Stieglitz and other Pictorialists, Doughty captures the beauty of the mundane. Rather than photographing popular tourist sites such as the Grand Canal, he turns his camera toward a more banal part of the city, with laundry drying in the breeze above docked boats.

A Canal in Venice, Italy

c. 1900–1920

Edward Crosby Doughty

(American, 1877–1952)
America

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