The Story
date: label: date made
content: before 1937
name: label: maker
content: Fassbender, Adolf
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content: From <i>Pictorial Artistry: The Dramatization of the Beautiful in Photography</i>
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content: "Three hundred years ago this old medieval town of Zous on the Rhine had been relieved from the tyranny of a long and oppressive conquest during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). Ever since, the inhabitants of the quaint old town have celebrated the anniversary of their freedom.
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content: Now the festival is over. It had rained a bit, but this had not dampened the spirits of the villagers, as they re-enacted with dramatic pageantry the heroism and strife of the past. Men, women and children all participated and here we find a group of village maidens by a roof-covered well recounting their happy day.
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content: Composition:
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content: The grouping is such that the interest is concentrated on the girl with her back turned to the camera. There is an easy grace of expression and pose in the grouping of the girls. On a circular base, the figures are arranged in pyramidal fashion, topped off by the roof of the well. The aged setting and the youthfulness of the girls are a pleasant contrast.
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content: Technical Approach:
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content: During the play, the stage and setting were overcrowded. But after the performance, I was able to achieve careful posing. Because it was late in the evening a long exposure was required, which made a tripod necessary.
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content: Figures in the background had to be removed by etching and retouching.
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content: Data:
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content: Camera: 2 ¼ x 3 ¼ Makina
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content: Lens: Anticomar
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content: Opening: f.6.3
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content: Exposure: ½ second
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content: Film: Agfa Super Plenachrome
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content: Print: 14x17 Defender Veltura"
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content: by Adolf Fassbender, 1937
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Adolf Fassbender, Pictorial Artistry
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.004116.31
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content: 4116.31
label: accession number
content: 146001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
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content: photogravure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 8 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 22.225 cm x 26.67 cm