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Eugène Atget

1927
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In the spring of 1927, Abbott invited Atget to sit for a portrait in her Paris studio. She made only three exposures that day: a standing pose, a frontal view, and this profile view. Unfortunately, Atget never saw the photographs. When Abbott arrived at his apartment a few months later to deliver the proofs, she found that the elderly photographer had died suddenly. This portrait was used as the frontispiece in the first book devoted to his work, Atget, Photographe de Paris (1930).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Eugène Atget
  • Artist: Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)
  • Date: 1927
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 4 3/8 × 3 5/16 in. (11.1 × 8.4 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gift of Maria Morris Hambourg, in honor of John Szarkowski, 2020
  • Object Number: 2020.374
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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