Atget’s many photographs of mannequins in shop windows appealed greatly to the Parisian avant-garde, who found in the aging artist an unwitting but kindred spirit. In these pictures, the Surrealists focused on the lamination of what was inside and outside and on the lovely dissolve between fact and imagination.
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Credit Line:Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number:1987.1100.113
Inscription: Stamped in ink on print, verso LC: "E. ATGET // Rue Campagne - Première [illegible]"; inscribed on print, verso UC: "Avenue des Gobelins"; inscribed on print, verso LR: "17 [illegible]"; inscribed on print, verso LC: "6? [illegible] 10 - 26. M.26."; stamped on print, verso UC: "A328"; inscribed on print, verso LC [sideways]: "155 mm [with extensive layout and crop marks and arrows overall]";
[Julien Levy]; Frank Kolodny; [Edwynn Houk]; John C. Waddell, October 19, 1984
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag," June 6–September 4, 2006.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940," June 3–September 1, 2008.
Lille Métropole Musée d'Art Moderne d'Art Contemporain et d'Art Brut. "The Magical City," September 29, 2012–January 13, 2013.
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