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Forêt de Fontainebleau

2005

Herbert Ascherman

(American, b. 1947)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Herbert Ascherman Jr. 2022.121
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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In the mid-19th century, a group of French artists spent their summers painting in the forest of Fontainebleau, a former royal hunting preserve 45 miles from Paris.

Description

Herbert Ascherman paid homage to photographers such as Gustave Le Gray (see 1988.64), André Giroux (1996.9), and Constant Famin (1988.167) in the photographs he made during a dozen excursions in the forest over a five-year period. He used an antique wood box camera similar to the large, heavy cameras his precursors had toted through the forest of Fontainebleau. The curved black border at the top of this picture echoes effects caused by 19th-century photographic technology.

Forêt de Fontainebleau

2005

Herbert Ascherman

(American, b. 1947)
America

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