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Constant Alexandre Famin

Untitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau)

c. 1874
albumen print, coated, from wet collodion negative

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Little is known about this gifted photographer who produced photographic studies of the landscape and rural motifs during the 1860s and 1870s. This image depicts a lovely wooded landscape scene flooded with sparkling sunlight and rich shadows. Of all the landscape photographers active in the 1870s, Famin produced the closest equivalent of impressionism in his work.

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