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Atget, Eugene
French (1857-1927)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Street Musicians
PUBLISHED TITLE: Joueur d'orgue
PORTFOLIO TITLE: "20 Photographs by Eugene Atget", New York, 1956

1899-1900 / printed 1956 by Berenice Abbott from Atget's negative
toned gelatin silver print
21.5 x 16.6 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 21474
76:0109:0016

OLD GEH NUMBER: 4745-16
NON-GEH NUMBER: Atget # 360 (PP)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Trottenberg, Alan D. --A Vision of Paris.-- New York: The Macmillan Co., 1963. p. 169.//
Abbott, Berenice. --The World of Atget.-- New York: Horizon Press, 1964. pl. 49.//
Borcoman, James. --Eugene Atget, 1857-1927.-- Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1984. p. 108.//
Szarkowski, John & Hambourg, Maria Morris. --The Work of Atget - Vol. IV, Modern Times.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985. p. 64.//

Leroy, Jean, "Who was Eugene Atget?", --Camera--, vol. 41, no. 12, (Dec. 1962). p. 24.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(stamp) "16"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/86, DZ. Published title and date from --The Work of Atget--, Vol. IV. This portfolio (No. 10 in an edition of 1100) of 20 photographs was printed by Berenice Abbott from her collection of Atget's 18.0 x 24.0 cm. glass negatives. The titles as assigned by Abbott may differ somewhat from those titles originally given by Atget. Szarkowski/Hambourg state that this image has been re-numbered from previous # 3124 (PP).

SUBJECTS:
street scene, urban
occupation, musician

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