Name: SECONDO PIA (1855–1941)
Brand: Shroud of Turin, c. 1898
Price: 900.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

SECONDO PIA (1855–1941)
Shroud of Turin, c. 1898
photogravure on chine collé
publisher credit, title and inscription in letterpress text, embossed with publisher credit stamp (margin); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 6¹⁄₂ x 5 in. (16.5 x 12.7 cm.)
sheet: 14³⁄₄ x 10³⁄₄ in. (37.4 x 27.3 cm.)

Ken and Jenny Jacobson, Essex;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002.

W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 188.

Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.

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'To make a photograph you need light and a bit of chemistry to fix ‘the shadow’ to a piece of paper. Does that make the actual Shroud of Turin the first photograph? That is something to consider, but here is a rare photograph of that piece of cloth.' – W.M. Hunt