Ely Cathedral: A Grotesque

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Ely Cathedral: A Grotesque

Creator

Frederick H. Evans

British Photographer · 1853–1943

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The writer George Bernard Shaw said of his friend Frederick Evans's work: "Mr. Evans has set a standard in photography that most of us find entirely impossible to live up to. He is a gentleman who has dedicated himself to an art which is disparaged by those who believe that when a lens is in a box it is mechanical, but not when it is in a man's head." Evans, a bookseller by trade, distinguished hi

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Date
negative 1897; print 1903
Medium
Halftone print
Culture
British
Department
Photographs
Institution
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A detailed view of an eroded grotesque with an open mouth against a stone wall.

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