Gabe Bornstein ’14 on Portrait of an Actor (Joseph Isidore Samson)
This podcast is part of Watson Conversations, a growing collection of podcasts produced by Wheaton students as part of Art History 298: Photography as Knowledge.
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
Portrait of an Actor (Joseph Isidore Samson)
c. 1850
Salted paper print
Purchased with the Kenneth C. and Louise McKeon Deemer ’33 Fund
Gabe Bornstein ’14 examines Vallou de Villeneuve’s portrait of the French actor Joseph Isidore Samson for its attempts to associate sitter with authorship and knowledge, and to transcend the socioeconomic limitations surrounding the profession of the actor in 19th-century France.
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