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Atget, Eugene
French (1857-1927)

TITLE ON OBJECT: L'Eclipse, avril 1912
ALBUM TITLE: "Photo Album - E. Atget coll. Man Ray 1926"

1912
albumen print
18.0 x 21.9 cm. (trimmed)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Man Ray
GEH NEG: 21220
76:0118:0025

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3273-A
NON-GEH NUMBER: Atget # 335 (PP)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Trottenberg, Alan D. --A Vision of Paris.-- New York: The Macmillan Co., 1963. p. 23.//
Gunther, Thomas Michael. --Photographies. "Les photographies d'Atget achetées par Man Ray".-- Paris: Photographies., 1986 March. fig. 18.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Eugene Atget", US, NY, Rochester, Hartnett Gallery - University of Rochester, February 11 - March 15, 1987.//
"Eugene Atget", Japan, Tokyo, Printemps Ginza, April 25 - May 14, 1991.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(inscribed in negative) "1982 (reversed)" verso-(in pencil) "L'eclipse, avril 1912" "335/335" "Man Ray Coll" "frame fine pour cauche (Surrealisme)" "16.5-21"

NOTES: Title and process determined by Francoise Reynaud, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, during visit to IMP/GEH, December, 1985. Catalogued 2/86, JL/DZ. See also 76:0109:0004 for modern print (1956) by Berenice Abbott from Atget's negative.

SUBJECTS:
people, gathering
event, eclipse

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