VACUUM SUGAR APPARATUS

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CLAUDE-MARIE FERRIER

Genre: Documentary

Date: 1851

Location: London, UK

Format: Salt print

“The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, held in London’s Hyde Park in 1851, was a celebration of British national pride and industrial progress. As exemples of scientific and technological progress, more than 700 photographs were shown alongside a bewildering selection of objects from all over the world. Photographs also played an important role in documenting the exhibition. Before the Great Exhibition opened, it was agreed that a special publication would be created for presentation to foreign governments and others who were involved in the organisation of the event, as a record and a token of appreciation.

Only 140 presentation sets of this work, requiring more than 20,000 individually processed and then trimmed photographs, were to be produced.

Two men were commissioned to take the photographs: French Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811-89) and Englishman Hugh Owen. This photograph by Ferrier shows a vacuum apparatus used in the manufacture of sugar, manufactured by Heckmann of Prussia. Adopting an objective aesthetic, both men relied on the physicality of the exhibit themselves to create striking images. Here, the result is sculptural and enigmatic.” (CH)

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