[Amphitheater, Nîmes] ca. 1853 Edouard Baldus Instead of photographing the entire arena in Nîmes, as he had two years earlier, Baldus focusses here on a section of the façade, playing the superimposed arches against the vertical, shadowed pylons in the foreground. The resulting composition manages to isolate and monumentalize the architecture, while creating a rhythmic play of light and dark that energizes the picture. The photograph was part of a massive, four-year project, Villes de France photographiées, in which the views from the south of France were said to surpass all of the photographe
[Amphitheater, Nîmes] ca. 1853 Edouard Baldus Instead of photographing the entire arena in Nîmes, as he had two years earlier, Baldus focusses here on a section of the façade, playing the superimposed arches against the vertical, shadowed pylons in the foreground. The resulting composition manages to isolate and monumentalize the architecture, while creating a rhythmic play of light and dark that energizes the picture. The photograph was part of a massive, four-year project, Villes de France photographiées, in which the views from the south of France were said to surpass all of the photographer’s previous work in the [Amphitheater, Nîmes] 831091
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