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Atget, Eugene
French (1857-1927)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Marchard d'abat-jour, rue Lepic
PUBLISHED TITLE: Marchand abat-jours
ALBUM TITLE: "Photo Album - E. Atget coll. Man Ray 1926"

1899-1900
albumen print
21.6 x 17.8 cm. (trimmed)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Man Ray
GEH NEG: 1942
76:0118:0038

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3273-A
NON-GEH NUMBER: Atget # 3196 (PP)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Beaumont. --The History of Photography from 1839 to Present.-- Museum of Modern Art, 1964. p. 134.//
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. 54.//
Gunther, Thomas Michael. --Photographies. "Les photographies d'Atget achetées par Man Ray".-- Paris: Photographies., 1986 March. fig. 25.//
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: verso-(in pencil) "3196" "16-20"

NOTES: Title and process determined by Francoise Reynaud, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, during visit to IMP/GEH, December, 1985. Catalogued 2/86, JL/DZ. Published title from --The Work of Atget, Vol. IV--. See also 76:0109:0008 for modern (1956) print by Berenice Abbott from Atget's negative.

SUBJECTS:
street scene, figure in
occupation, peddler

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