Fête du Trône

1925, printed ca. 1929

Not on view

Berenice Abbott made new contact prints from Atget’s glass-plate negatives, experimenting with various photographic papers and processes to try to approximate the clarity and detail of Atget’s own prints. Sometime early in 1930, Walker Evans visited Abbott’s studio in New York’s Hotel des Artistes, where she stored her vast Atget archive. Deeply affected by the French photographer’s work, Evans left that day with four of Abbott’s Atget prints: this one and three others. Although Atget’s work was never exhibited during his lifetime, his soulful documentation of Paris had a profound impact on both Abbott and Evans, and contributed to the emergence of a documentary style in twentieth-century American art photography.

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Title: Fête du Trône
Artist: Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris)
Printer: Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)
Date: 1925, printed ca. 1929
Medium: Matte gelatin silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: 23.4 x 17 cm (9 3/16 x 6 11/16 in. )
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1999
Object Number: 1999.188.2
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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