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| Keywords: Charles Nègre, Organ Grinder at 21, quai Bourbon - Getty Museum.jpg Amidst a rapidly changing urban landscape Charles Nègre photographed traditional street people The itinerant musician stooped slightly from the weight of his instrument is about to enter a door One foot stands on the step and his hand rests upon the doorknob In comparison with André-Adolphe-Eugene Disdéri's Organ-Grinder made around the same time this musician is depicted at the weary end of a day's labor rather than playing at his instrument Because exposure times in the 1850s prevented much spontaneity Charles Nègre had to pose his subject upon the threshold in a stance that the organ-grinder could maintain for the duration of the exposure The vignette effect of the print's darkened edges was a technical sacrifice that Nègre accepted in order to shorten his exposure time Serving also as a frame for the subject the dark rim draws the viewer's attention to the isolated figure and produces a more focused image before March or May 1853 Salt print from a paper negative Size cm 10 8 3 Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 44817 Signed Recto initialled in the negative at lower left corner C N <br> Inscriptions Recto inscribed in pencil B59 / Expos Fr H 19 - Princeton 1983 / See also print in BN After Daguerre credit line accession number 84 XM 344 1 PD-100 Quai de Bourbon Paris Organ grinders in Paris Charles Nègre Photographs in the Getty Museum 1853 in Paris 1853 photographs | ||||
