Jérusalem, Enceinte du Temple, Détails de l'appareil de la piscine probatique

Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille|Auguste Salzmann

1854 · Salted paper print from paper negative · Photographs

This site is associated with the New Testament’s Gospel of John, which describes Jesus’s healing of paralytics in the Probatic Pool’s waters. Here, Salzmann fills the entire frame with pocked and mottled stones of varying textures, re-creating the experience of standing within the basin. Placing the camera perfectly perpendicular to his subject, he records the physical present in order to connect with a biblical past. This temporal layering occurs throughout Salzmann’s album as he follows the Bible’s path in search of archaeological fragments.

Artist

Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille|Auguste Salzmann

Date

1854

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005