Uploads from National Media Museum, tagged rome

'Baths of Caracalla, Rome'

nobody@flickr.com (National Media Museum) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:30:45 -0700

Bisson Frères (Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814-1876) & Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (1826-1900)); 'Baths of Caracalla, Rome', about 1860; Albumen print; 36.7 x 44.8cm

Don McCullin is one of Britain’s greatest photographers. For his latest project he has photographed archaeological remains around the Mediterranean. On a recent visit to the Museum, to coincide with the opening of a major exhibition of his work, Don made a personal selection of photographs from the National Media Museum's collection, revealing how these sites were recorded by earlier photographers such as Francis Frith and Maxime Du Camp.

Don McCullin: "It's so gigantic this building. It's amazing how people had the imagination to build and construct stuff like this with stone, long before concrete was invented. It was all done by hand and crafted and lifted and hauled up God knows how. This is a very simple image and yet it's actually very, very powerful. Again the print is a total treasure. You can look further and further into these pictures of antiquity. You can't just look at them as a one-off, you have to go deeper and deeper because the depth of field is so extraordinary that there is information even lurking way back in the background and it is needle-sharp."

----

We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version of apply though; if you're unsure please visit the National Media Museum website.

For obtaining reproductions of selected images please go to the Science and Society Picture Library.

'Temple de la Concorde, Rome'

nobody@flickr.com (National Media Museum) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:30:39 -0700

National Media Museum posted a photo:

Bisson Frères (Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814-1876) & Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (1826-1900); 'Temple de la Concorde, Rome', about 1860; Albumen print; 36.8 x 44.6cm

Don McCullin is one of Britain’s greatest photographers. For his latest project he has photographed archaeological remains around the Mediterranean. On a recent visit to the Museum, to coincide with the opening of a major exhibition of his work, Don made a personal selection of photographs from the National Media Museum's collection, revealing how these sites were recorded by earlier photographers such as Francis Frith and Maxime Du Camp.

Don McCullin: "These are quite famous these columns. Of course they're still there today and I think the background has very much been changed. It's so lovely to think that this person came up with the idea of recording these beautiful objects because we still don't know how many more years they will be allowed to stand before they start crumbling. The slightest tremor from an earthquake could topple this lot down and they would have to be reconstructed. They possibly are some of them reconstructed but they are beautiful and they are memorable. This is one of the most famous of all the images in Rome, apart from the Colosseum of course."

----

We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version of apply though; if you're unsure please visit the National Media Museum website.

For obtaining reproductions of selected images please go to the Science and Society Picture Library.