From the Churchyard

From the Churchyard (Fra Kirkegaarden) — Olaf Christoffersen, 1927. The view is taken from ground level among the vegetation between the graves, looking across them toward the church wall. The cross is the only element given full tonal separation.

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The churchyard is seen from ground level, close to the vegetation growing between the graves. The pale stone cross right of centre is the one form separated fully from its ground; from it, the darker headstones and the church wall behind resolve gradually, with a pointed window to the left and an arched portal to the right. Tonal range is compressed toward the dark register, and the surrounding stones retain shape but little internal detail. Granular pigment texture is visible across the whole print surface. The print was accepted for and shown at the Second International Photographic Salon in Stockholm, 19–31 October 1928. It was subsequently hung at Fredriksstad Foto-Klub’s 3rd National Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, 1929.

Technical Details: Pictorialist pigment print, likely bromoil or oil-pigment process, on heavy cream mount, signed and dated lower right; a fine diagonal crack or scratch crosses the lower left of the print. Verso bears the original title in ink together with exhibition labels from Stockholm 1928 and Fredriksstad Foto-Klub 1929.

Format: TIFF

Size: 206 mb

Resolution: 4912 x 6986

DPI: 300

Color Model: RGB

Color Sync: Adobe RGB (1998)

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