Portail milieu d'Aubeterre, 1851, Salted paper print from paper negative, Image: 23.3 x 28.1 cm. (9 3/16 x 11 1/16 in.), Photographs, Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884), This image merges a primitive-even brutal-directness with an astute attention to the subtlety of light. The heaviness of the twelfth-century portal is relieved by sunlight glancing along the concentric arches and picking out the rhythmic scalloped motif of the door frame, while the entrance itself remains plunged in deep and mysterious shadow
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Portail milieu d'Aubeterre, 1851, Salted paper print, paper negative, Image, 23.3 x 28.1 cm, 9, 3/16, x 11, 1/16, Photographs, Gustave Le Gray, French, 1820–1884, image, merges, primitive-even brutal-directness, astute attention, subtlety, light, heaviness, twelfth-century portal, relieved, sunlight glancing, concentric arches, picking out, rhythmic scalloped, motif, door frame, entrance itself, remains, plunged, deep, mysterious shadow
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