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Salt print
cm 24,5 x 18 | 9.6 x 7 in.
Framed
cm 24,5 x 18 | 9.6 x 7 in.
Framed
Exhibition
Voyage en Italie, Antiquario, Treviso, 1994
In Italian cities at the end of the 19th century, photographic studios were multiplying, dedicated above all to documenting the urban landscape, which, in the climate of the Grand Tour, was aimed at selling the photographs to the increasing number of tourists, especially foreigners who were passing through Italy. Robert MacPherson is the protagonist of an almost picaresque story: a surgeon doctor from Edinburgh moves to Rome in his thirties for health reasons where, as a passionate painter, he discovers a lost work by Michelangelo 'The Burial of Christ', but it is for his fulminating passion for photography that he will go down in history. In a very short time, he also made a name for himself with some technical inventions that made his prints valuable. Historian Helmut Gernsheim considers him to be one of the best photographers of the time and his contemporaries also remember him for the sumptuous banquets he could organise.