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Gustave Le Gray 
The Great Wave, Sete 
1857 
  
Albumen silver print, from glass negative 
33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 in) 
  
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Gift of John Goldsmith Phillips, 1976 (1976.646) 
  
 
LL/6319 
  
The dramatic effects of sunlight, clouds, and water in Le Gray's seascapes stunned his contemporaries and immediately brought him international recognition. At a time when photographic emulsions were not equally sensitive to all colors of the spectrum, most photographers found it impossible to achieve proper exposure of both landscape and sky in a single picture. Le Gray solved this problem by printing two negatives on a single sheet of paper: one exposed for the sea, the other for the sky, and sometimes made on separate occasions or in different locations. Le Gray's marine pictures caused a sensation not only because their simultaneous depiction of sea and heavens represented a technical tour de force, but also because the resulting poetic effect was without precedent in photography.
 
For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 98-99 
 
 
  
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