Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: DOODY, Henry
Event Date: 1945-05-??
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004534

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Belgium / religion / Tongres; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / BY; handwritten: Henry Dood [sic.] / #11; stamped: from BLACK STAR / NEW YORK, N.Y. / GRABAR BUILDING, NEW YORK / BY; handwritten: Henry Doody; stamped: NEW YORK, N.Y.; typed on label [folded over to recto]: Photo 11. “Gothic in Tongres” / The old cathedral of Tongres, Belgium’s second oldest / town, remains today untouched by the breath of war, - aloof / to the changing pattern of life outside its ancient walls. / It looks down upon the cobbled, tree shaded square with a / stony calm and stillness. Here, time is measured in longer / spans than the lives of those who made the wars that have / passed by outside its opened doors. / Leica; Elmar 5 cm. on Dupont 2, at 6.3, 1//100 sec. Dev. In Atomal / Late may, 1945. Tongres, Limburg prov., Belgium.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / RELIGION: CHURCHES
Retouching: N