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The Curved Bridge of the St. Anthony River Aqueduct (Aqueducto do Rio Sto. Antonio - Ponte Curva).
Creator
Marc FerrezPhotographer · 1843–1923
All works by this person →Marc Ferrez was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a family of artists that originally hailed from France. After being educated in Paris, he returned to Brazil, where he began to photograph the urban landscape of Rio de Janeiro in the 1860s. He established his own studio in 1865 specializing in landscape photography. Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, himself an amateur photographer and one of the
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- about 1883–1889
- Medium
- Gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print
- Culture
- Brazilian
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Brazil's emperor, Dom Pedro II, commissioned Marc Ferrez to document the construction of an aqueduct being built to supply water to the capital city of Rio de Janeiro. The aqueduct bridge over the St. Anthony River snakes through the photograph like a scaly serpent, bisecting the dark, lush foliage and fixing the imprint of humans and growing urbanization upon the landscape. Without a glimpse of sky above or ground below, the bridge seems to hover suspended in the verdant landscape. The small figure of a man standing on the bridge footpath at the left provides a sense of scale with which to compare the aqueduct's size with its human creators.
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