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Eclipse, from Twenty Photographs by Eugene Atget 1856-1927
Eclipse, from Twenty Photographs by Eugene Atget 1856-1927

Eclipse, from Twenty Photographs by Eugene Atget 1856-1927

Primary (Libourne, France, 1857–Paris, France, 1927)
Printer (Springfield, Ohio, 1898–Monson, Maine, 1991)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1911, printed 1956
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/8 in. (17.1 × 23.1 cm)
Additional Dimension: 13 × 9 15/16 in. (33 × 25.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, P1967.1.4
Keywords
Collection AreaArt of the United States
Object numberP1967.1.4/20
On View
On view
Locations
  • exhibition  BMA, Gallery, A6 - Glickman Galleries
Label Text
Eugène Atget produced over ten thousand photographs of France throughout his life. Atget captured Paris in meticulous detail, creating a visual record of the rapidly modernizing city in the early twentieth century through doors, courtyards, streets, museums, storefronts, and Parisians themselves. While they serve as an important record of Paris and its inhabitants in the 1900s, Atget’s images capture mundane yet uncanny moments that endeared him to the Surrealists.
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