Artist: Eugene Atget (1857 - 1927)
Nationality: French
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Eugene Atget was first a painter and then an actor before focusing on photography. His original subjects were the architecture and scenes of Paris in 1898. He was known for working early in the morning and traveling through the streets and gardens carrying his outdated, large-format view camera. His pictures were then often sold to painters as studies. Atget did not receive recognition during his lifetime. However, Man Ray and Bernice Abbott uncovered his work, preserving the prints and negatives and publishing his work outside of France.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Beech Tree
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Lilies
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Street Fair
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The Pont Neuf
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Ancienne Barrière du Trône
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Old Mill, Charenton
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Royal Palace
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Corner, rue de Seine
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Restaurant, rue des Blancs Manteaux
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Kiosk and Street Fair, Fête du Vaugirard
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Junkyard
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Water Lilies
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Courtyard, Fountainebleau
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Staircase, Hôtel
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Rue Cardinale
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Pine Tree Trunks, Trianon
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Furniture Store, Compiègne
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Place Saint-Médard
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Shop Front, rue Michel-Le-Comte
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Cour de Rohan
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Hôtel Scipion Sardini, rue Sardini
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Old School of Medicine
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The Facade of Saint Julien le Pauvre
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Animal Circus, Fête des Invalides
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A Corner of the Park at Versailles
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The Marne at La Varenne
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Children Playing, Luxembourg Gardens
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Luggage Store, rue Dupetit Thouars
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Tree Roots, Saint-Cloud
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Dragon, Grand Trianon, Versailles
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Staircase, Saint-Cloud
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Roses
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Three Prostitutes, rue Asselin
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Storefront (Little Bacchus)
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Eugène Atget
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Hôtel de Royaumont, rue du Jour
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Old Courtyard, rue Quincampoix
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Market Porter
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Ragpicker, avenue des Gobelins
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The Temple of Love, Petit Trianon, Versailles
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The Park, Versailles
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Republican Guards
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Pool, Saint-Cloud
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Avenue des Gobelins, 1927 Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)Depicted: Paris, FranceGelatin silver print; 36.8 x 28.6
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Fountains at Juvisy
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Produce Display, rue Sainte-Opportune
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Store Window, avenue des Gobelins
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Costume Shop, rue de la Corderie
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Terrace Stairs, Saint-Cloud
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Brothel, Versailles, Petit Place, March 1921
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Antique Store, 21 Faubourg St.-Honoré
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House on the Place du Caire
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Artist: Jean-Eugene-Auguste Atget Title: Interieur d"un employé aux magasins du Louvre, Rue St. Jacques Date:
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Artist: Jean-Eugene-Auguste Atget Title: Rue du Chevalier de la Barre Date: 19th century Medium: albumen
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Staircase, Montmartre
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Quai Conti 3
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Artist: Jean-Eugene-Auguste Atget Title: The Dummies in the Window Date: 1910 Medium: aristotype Dimensions: H.8-3/4
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Artist: Jean-Eugene-Auguste Atget Title: Untitled Date: 1925 Medium: aristotype Dimensions: H.7 x W.9 in. Credit
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Luxembourg Gardens
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Secondhand Book Dealer, place de la Bastille

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (23)
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J. Paul Getty Center: The Man in the Street: Eugene Atget in Paris
Drawn entirely from the Getty Museum collection, the exhibition includes more than 80 of Atget's images captured during his self-devised and eccentric photographic campaign, which documented as...
Photographer's Gallery: Richard Wentworth/Eugene Atget: Faux Amis
Both Atget and Wentworth are authors of photographic compendia which describe the great cities of London and Paris poised at two very different moments of change - at the twentieth century's beginning and at its end. For both, the city i...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: The Desiring Eye
The exhibition THE DESIRING EYE presents art photography’s development from the 1840s to the 1980s. The hanging follows photography’s chronological development, and the photographs have been divided into six sections: early portrait ph...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Seeing Things: Photographing Objects 1850-2001
It features many of the greatest practitioners of photography, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Chadwick as well as prominent younger photographers. Natural Things ...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: The First Annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition Opens Today
Collectors, curators, and photographers will have an extraordinary opportunity to view thousands of images. The fair is organized by Stephen Cohen, organizer of photo l.a., The Lo...
photo l.a. 2000: 9th LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT EXPOSITION
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston an...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
National Gallery of Canada: REFLECTIONS ON THE ARTIST: SELF-PORTRAITS AND PORTRAITS
Visitors to the exhibition will have a wonderful opportunity to observe a captivating and diverse selection of portraits, some light-hearted and humorous in tone, others more serious and reflective in nature, said Pierre Théberge, Director, Na...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: photo san francisco 2001 Opens Tomorrow
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston an...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: World Without End - Photography and the 20th Century
World Without End brings together some 200 works of acclaimed ...
photo l.a. 2003, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Inc.: 12th annual Los Angeles International Photographic Print Exposition Opens
BENEFIT RECEPTION - January 16th, 6-9pm The opening night preview reception will benefit the Photographic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has one of the major collections of photogr...
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona: Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia
Thus the creation of Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interes...
Cohen Amador Gallery: Thomas Kellner: Tango Metropolis
The intrigue of Kellner's work lies in its simultaneous participation in avant-gardist and historical photographic discourses while maintaining a level of individuality and aesthetic merit that captures the eye and refuses to let go. Aligned in t...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: Third Annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition at Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
Collectors, curators, and photographers will have an extraordinary opportunity to view thousands of images. The fair is organized by Stephen Cohen, organizer of photo l.a., the Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition which celebrated it’s eleve...
Haus der Kunst: Lee Friedlander: Photographs 1956 - 2004
Lee Friedlander has brought new amplitude to the old idea of 'a body of work.' A draconian selection of Friedlander's best individual pictures would be stunning, but it would brutally amputate what it purports to explore. The exhibition and book a...
National Portrait Gallery: The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in 19th Century Photography
Highlights of the exhibition include rarely seen surveillance images of suffragettes issued to art galleries to help them identify possible vandals, an intriguing series of portraits of murderers and their victims, fascinating...
La Petite Mort Gallery: TIM PORTER: STILL LIVES / Photographs Portraits from The Collection of The Congdon Anatomical Museum, Bangkok
At first glance, the viewer is presented with series of portraits of children. At closer inspection, the figures become grotesque, horrific and sad. More is quickly revealed, only to take you to a place you wouldnít normally goÖ What was once brie...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: Fourth annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition Opens Today
Collecting Seminars are held before public hours, at 9 a.m., and are limited to 30 people. This year seminar hosts are Keith Davis, of The Hallmark Collection, Robert Flynn Johnson, curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at T...
J. Paul Getty Center: Photographers of Genius at the Getty
From Hippolyte Bayard to Diane Arbus, the influential pioneers presented here span more than a century of photography, from the earliest years of the new art form in the late 1830s to the late 1960s. Each photographer featured in the exhibition ad...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Center for Creative Photography: Our Quarter Century: The University of Arizona's Center For Creative Photography Turns Twenty-Five
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona, a world-renowned museum and research institution dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record, is commemorating its 25th Anniversary with special exhibitions,...
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art: SUPERMODEL
The artists in SUPERMODEL rely on the tradition of architectural photography advanced by such artists as Eugène Atget, August Sander, Bernd and Hilla Becher and Thomas Struth. They also draw from photography's surrealist and fictional forms, f...
photo L.A.: The 10th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition
This is an unparalleled opportunity for collectors, curators and the curious to view thousands of images from all over the world. Over 6000 people attended last year...

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