Giorgio Sommer
Farnese Hercules, Museum of Naples, Italy
1860
Sommer's albumen photograph documents one of antiquity's most celebrated sculptures, representing both the 19th-century fascination with classical art and the emerging role of photography in art historical documentation.
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- albumen print from collodion negative
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