[Large Figures on the North Porch, Chartres Cathedral], 1852, Salted paper print from paper negative, 32.8 x 22.1 cm (12 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.), Photographs, Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq (French, Paris 1818–1882 Paris), Seen obliquely from the eye level of a cathedral visitor, the portal sculptures in Henri Le Secq's photograph appear disengaged from their stone support. The figures' corporeality is animated by sharp focus and by their position between shadowed columns and a blur of moving foliage
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Large Figures, North Porch, Chartres Cathedral, 1852, Salted paper print, paper negative, 32.8 x 22.1 cm, 12 15/16 8 11/16, Photographs, Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq, French, Paris, 1818–1882, obliquely, eye level, cathedral visitor, portal sculptures, Henri Le, Secq, photograph, disengaged, stone support, figures, corporeality, animated, sharp focus, position, shadowed columns, blur, moving foliage
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