Panorama de Bethliem, (Vallee de Josaphat) – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Panorama de Bethliem, (Vallee de Josaphat) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Panorama de Bethliem, (Vallee de Josaphat)
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Pairing Bethlehem with the Valley of Jehoshaphat in one wide sweep gives this print its particular character. It was issued in Paris in 1856 as one plate in volume three of Auguste Salzmann's *Jérusalem*, a survey of the city's monuments from the Jewish period to the photographer's own day. Salzmann worked in the region in the mid-1850s, and his albumen prints were among the most ambitious photographic records of the Holy Land of their time. Notice how the albumen surface renders the open terrain and the built edges of the town, the kind of detail that let armchair readers in Paris see places they would never visit.
| Created / published | Paris : Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1850-1860.Book illustrations 1850-1860.Albumen prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Published in: Jérusalem; étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la Ville Sainte, depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours / Auguste Salzmann. Paris: Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856, v. 3, no. 5. |
| Subjects | Valleys--Bethlehem--1850-1860. Bethlehem--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,662 × 3,757 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222259 |
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