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Unknown Artist — Untitled (Pifferari)

Unknown Artist

Untitled (Pifferari)

1851

Documenting Italian street musicians known as pifferari, this salt print demonstrates the wet collodion process's ability to capture fine detail and social documentary subjects in the 1850s.

Medium
salted paper print from wet collodion negative

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Unknown Artist, Untitled (Pifferari), 1851

Documenting Italian street musicians known as pifferari, this salt print demonstrates the wet collodion process's ability to capture fine detail and social documentary subjects in the 1850s.

Medium
salted paper print from wet collodion negative
Year
1851
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Monochrome, Documentary, 19th Century, Photograph, 1851, Italian, Portrait, Sepia Tones, Salted Paper Print, Street musicians

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago