952 - FRATELLI ALINARI (19th) Circle, Odde on the Hardanger Fjord, around 1880, albumen paper print

FRATELLI ALINARI (19th) Circle, Odde on the Hardanger Fjord, around 1880, albumen paper print Fratelli Alinari (19th century) Circle: Beautiful Norwegian landscape: Odde on the Hardanger Fjord, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print, mounted on Cardboard Date: c. 1880 Description: This photograph takes you back to a long-forgotten time in Odda on the Hardanger Fjord. Original photography with high detail sharpness. An early testimony to travel photography. Around the middle of the 19th century, more and more tourists from bourgeois circles travelled around Europe. At that time, photographs could only be taken at great expense in terms of time and with expensive, unwieldy equipment. This made many tourists all the more grateful for the work of the professional photographer's studios on site, so that they could bring back a souvenir from their holiday home or collect them as mementos. The photographers photographed the most famous sights of their home towns and cities and travelled themselves to photograph their customers' favourite destinations and offer them as albumen prints. Ancient art treasures were also photographed and offered to travellers. The high-quality photographs of sculptures and frescoes continued to make an important contribution to documenting the art treasures and making them accessible to scholars from all over Europe, who previously had to rely on copies or engravings if they were unable to view the original themselves. Keywords: 19th century, Historicism, Nature, Norway, Size: Cardboard: 31,0 cm x 36,9 cm (12,2 x 14,5 in), Depiction: 13,5 cm x 18,0 cm (5,3 x 7,1 in) Condition: Good condition. The depiction makes a very good impression. The outline of a church and the centre ridge have been lightly traced in pencil. The cardboard is slightly wavy and light-stained due to its age.