Maison Carrée at Nîmes
Em. Pec. (Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère)
Description
Subject Matter:
The talented, but difficult to identify, photographer known as Em. Pec was particularly adept at isolating his subjects from their environment, reveling in the camera's capacity to accentuate fragmentary details. Aspects of this approach are visible even in this photograph, which captures the totality of the Roman temple known as the Masion Carrée or "square house," in Nîmes, France. The bleached-out sky and dark strip of foreground that frame the temple flatten and isolate the building from its environment, an effect that is heightened by Pec's compositional technique of aligning the shape of the structure with the margins of the photograph.
Physical Description:
Side view of the Maison Carrée, a Roman temple, in Nîmes, France.
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