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Louis-Émile Durandelle

Ornamental Scupture

c. 1865–72
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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Louis-Émile Durandelle photographed this sculptural ornament for the new Paris opera house while still in the workshop; he blacked out the background in the negative.

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