The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Atget's Work Room with Contact Printing Frames]

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A Photographic Truth

Mark Osterman—Process Historian, Kay R. Whitmore Conservation Center, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film—discusses the origins of photography and the history of manipulation. Using rare examples from the George Eastman House's collection as well as his own artwork, he illustrates the historical methods used by many photographers.

Recorded October 14, 2012

Part of a Sunday at the Met program held in conjunction with the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, on view October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe. The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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[Atget's Work Room with Contact Printing Frames]

Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris)

Date:: ca. 1910
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: 20.9 x 17.3 cm. (8 1/4 x 6 13/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1990
Accession Number:: 1990.1026.3

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Stamped in ink on mount, verso UC: "PHOTO E. ATGET//COLLECTION BERENICE ABBOTT//1 W. 67th ST.//COPYRIGHT"; inscribed in pencil on print, verso UC: "Interior 251", C: "Atget's Workroom[underlined]", LC: "(Cg Inv. 1976-6)"
Provenance

Carlton Gallery, Philadelphia
Notes

For variant (other side of Atget's Workroom) see: Nesbit, Margaret, and Françoise Reynaud. Eugène Atget; Intérieurs Parisiens, Photographies. Paris; Musée Carnavalet, 1982, p.33; for related information see: The Work of Atget, Volume II, The Art of Old Paris. New York: (MoMA), 1982, pp.19-22
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