Route de Pierrefitte à Luz St Sauveur

Joseph Vigier

1853 · Salted paper print from paper negative · Photographs

In the summer of 1853, Viscount Vigier spent two months photographing in the Pyrenees. He had learned the waxed paper process from Gustave Le Gray but preferred Talbot's original technique for its strong contrasts of light and dark. When Vigier exhibited his views in London and Paris in l854, they were highly acclaimed. These first photographs of the Pyrenees appealed to the English taste for the sublime and to the French romantic temperament.

Artist

Joseph Vigier

Date

1853

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005