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拍品专文
Alfred Percival Maudslay, archéologue et photographe anglais voyagea à Mexico et en Amérique centrale dans les années 1880 et photographia les sites de Chichen Itza, Copan, Palenque et Quirigua. Afin de participer à une exposition à Séville en 1892 sur le quatre-centenaire de la découverte de l’Amérique par Christophe Colomb, Maudslay proposa de réaliser des agrandissements de ses 40 meilleures épreuves. Sa technique consistait à faire un tirage contact du négatif, qu’il re-photographiait avec un appareil utilisant un négatif au moins aussi grand que l’agrandissement, puis un tirage contact de ce négatif agrandit. Ces très grands tirages au charbon retinrent l’attention du public et permirent de faire connaitre ces sites. Un an plus tard, en 1893, cette même sélection fut exposée à la World’s Columbian Exhibition de Chicago aux côtés d’œuvres de Désiré Charnay. Il existe donc deux éditions de ces 40 grands tirages, l’une exposée à Séville ensuite destinée au British Museum et l’autre réalisée pour l’exposition de Chicago à la demande du professeur Frederic Putnam, chargé de la section ethnographique et archéologique de cet évènement.
Alfred Percival Maudslay, British archaeologist and photographer, travelled to Mexico and Central America in the 1880s photographing sites such as Chichen Itza, Copan, Palenque and Quirigua. In order to participate in an exhibition in Seville in 1892, marking the fourth centenary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, Maudslay created enlargements of 40 of his best works. His technique consisted of making a contact print from the negative, which he re-photographed using a machine that used a negative larger than the previous and thus was able to make a larger print. These extremely large carbon prints captured the imagination of the public as they were able to visualize for the first time these historical sites. One year later, in 1893, the same selection was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago next to prints by Désiré Charnay. There exists two sets of these 40 large prints. The set exhibited in Seville was given by Maudslay to the British Museum and another created to be shown in Chicago at the request of professor Frederic Putnam who arranged the ethnographic and archeological sections of the exhibition.
Alfred Percival Maudslay, British archaeologist and photographer, travelled to Mexico and Central America in the 1880s photographing sites such as Chichen Itza, Copan, Palenque and Quirigua. In order to participate in an exhibition in Seville in 1892, marking the fourth centenary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, Maudslay created enlargements of 40 of his best works. His technique consisted of making a contact print from the negative, which he re-photographed using a machine that used a negative larger than the previous and thus was able to make a larger print. These extremely large carbon prints captured the imagination of the public as they were able to visualize for the first time these historical sites. One year later, in 1893, the same selection was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago next to prints by Désiré Charnay. There exists two sets of these 40 large prints. The set exhibited in Seville was given by Maudslay to the British Museum and another created to be shown in Chicago at the request of professor Frederic Putnam who arranged the ethnographic and archeological sections of the exhibition.