The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Etang, Ville-d'Avray

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Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

The symposium "Truth, Lies, and Photographs" was presented in conjunction with the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop, on view October 11, 2012, through January 27, 2013. In this talk, A. D. Coleman, an indepent critic, outlines the history of the Pictorialism movement within photography, its decline and dismissal, and its contemporary revival as an art form.

Part Two of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

Etang, Ville-d'Avray

Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris)

Date:: 1923–25
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: 17.4 x 22.5 cm (6 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.435

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, recto BR: "1215," in reverse; inscribed in pencil, verso BC: "Ville d'Avray (Etang)"; inscribed in pencil, verso TL "D // 1215"; stamped in black ink. verso C: "E. ATGET // Rue Campagne-Première, 17 bis"; inscribed in pencil, to right of stamp: "17 bis"
Provenance

Berenice Abbott; [Paul Katz]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, June 2, 1979
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