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Nevers Station
Creator
Auguste Hippolyte CollardFrench Photographer · 1812–1885
All works by this person →Trained as a wood frame gilder, Hippolyte-Auguste Collard specialized in industrial imagery as a photographer. He set up his first photography studio in January 1856. During the Second Empire, the reign of Napoleon III in France, he ran a photography studio for twenty years, producing sequential photographs of bridges, railroads, and aqueducts. The Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Wor
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- 1860–1863
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In the 1800s new railroads demanded a new kind of building: the railroad station. Gare de Nevers, a modest station in a provincial area, exemplifies the glass-and-iron building type that French architects and engineers developed in response to this need. Combining a train shed and a passenger building, the railroad station had to provide an area wide enough to accommodate parallel tracks and tall enough to diffuse smoke and steam from the train's engine. This station's shed is so large that the engine waiting beneath it looks miniature. Beside the shed, doors lead to the passenger building, where people could purchase tickets, dispose of luggage, await departure or arrival, and generally make the jolting transition between the familiar urban world and the realm of steam and speed.
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