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        "title": "Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem",
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        "description": "In 1854, Auguste Salzmann was commissioned by the French Ministry of Public Instruction to document the holy city of Jerusalem. His charge was to substantiate the controversial theories about dating ancient ruins proposed by his friend, Louis F\u00e9licien de Saulcy, a noted antiquarian. Unlike almost all other photographers documenting architecture in the 19th century, Salzmann relied on extreme close-up views. In this example, he eliminated most of the building, concentrating on the door of the tomb and its surrounding architectural elements. As a result, all indications of scale, terrain, placement, and context normally found in documentary photographs are absent, while the abstract textural and surface qualities of the tomb are emphasized.",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 314",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cThe Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,\u201d March 18, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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                "biography": "Auguste Salzmann French, 1824-1872\r\n\r\nBorn into a family of painters in Ribeauvill\u00e9, Haut-Rhin in Alsace, Auguste Salzmann exhibited his canvases of landscapes in the Paris Salons of 1847, 1848, and 1850. This artistic background, along with his distinctive subject matter, contributed to Salzmann's photographic style. His photographs were exhibited only once during his lifetime, at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Primarily interested in archaeology, he belonged to no photographic societies and considered his photographic work merely a tool.\r\n\tSalzmann visited Palestine (1850-51) and Jerusalem (1853), combining a project to record the monuments left by the Crusaders with another that tried to prove the work of scholar Louis-F\u00e9licien-Joseph Caignart de Saulcy, whose controversial historical and architectural theories involved the dating of buildings within the ancient city. The resulting images were published by Louis-D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Blanquart-\u00c9vrard in J\u00e9rusalem, \u00e9poques judaique, romaine, chr\u00e9tienne, arabe, explorations photographique par A. Salzmann (1854). In these extremely intense studies, light and form were used to animate the ancient buildings and landscape of the Middle East.\r\n\tA journey to Rhodes (185-67) led to another publication, N\u00e9cropole de Camiros, which documented a site Salzmann is believed to have discovered. Although much of the biographical information about Salzmann is unclear and remains a subject of debate, his work continues to be influential and admired. T.W.F.",
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