#Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget

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‘Les p'tits métiers de Paris’ (The small trades of Paris) - French postcard.

‘Fleurs au panier - Deux bottes pour trois sous’ - ‘Flowers in the basket - two bunches for three pennies.’

Photographer: Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget (French, 1857–1927).

Hand-coloured collotype on card stock. 

Published by V. Porcher.

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

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Hotel du Prince de Conde, Paris, France. Photographed by Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, 1900.

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Cours Damoye, 12 Place de la Bastille Paris. Ph: Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget (1857-1927) - source Heritage Auctions.

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• Magazins de Bon Marché.

Place of origin: Paris

Date: 1926

Photographer: Atget, Jean-Eugène-Auguste

Medium: Gold-toned albumen print from gelatin dry plate negative.

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Jean Eugène Auguste Atget. Quai d'Orléans, Ile Saint-Louis. 1901

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Early photography: Etang de Corot, Ville d'Avray - Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Etang de Corot, Ville d’Avray Date: ca. 1909 Location: France Photographer: Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget (1857 – 1927) Process: albumen print Source and information: Museum of Photographic Arts

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Rue des Nonnains d'Hyères, Jean Eugène Auguste Atget (1900)

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Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget - Doorknocker, 5 Rue Bonaparte, Paris, France. 1900

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69 Quai de la Tournelle, Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, 1912, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jesse Lie Farber, Saundra B. Lane, Barnabas McHenry, Richard and Ronay Menschel and Melvin R. Seiden Size: image: 21.3 x 17.3 cm (8 3/8 x 6 13/16 in.)

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/95930

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KAMROOZ ARAM

on the ancient arts of Iran

Achaemenid (Iran, Susa). Bricks with a palmette motif, ca. 6th–4th century B.C. Ceramic, glaze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1948 (48.98.20a–c)

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Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

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Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget - Doorknocker, 5 Rue Bonaparte, Paris, France. 1900

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Jean Eugène Auguste Atget (1857-1927). Hôtel du Griffin, 52 rue André des Arts, Paris 1900.- source Heritage Auctions.

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Quai d'Orleans, Ile Saint-Louis, Photo by Jean Eugène Auguste Atget, 1900-01

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Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget (1857-1927) was a prominent French Pictorial photographer from the 18th to the 19th centuries. Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget was born 12 February 1857 in Libourne. His father, carriage builder Jean-Eugène Atget, died in 1862, and his mother, Clara-Adeline Atget née Hourlier died shortly after. He was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Bordeaux and after finishing secondary education joined the merchant navy. Atget moved to Paris in 1878. He failed the entrance exam for acting class but was admitted when he had a second try. Because he was drafted for military service he could attend class only part-time, and he was expelled from drama school. He gave up acting because of an infection of his vocal cords in 1887, moved to the provinces and took up painting without success. His first photographs, of Amiens and Beauvais, date from 1888. In 1890, Atget moved back to Paris and became a professional photographer, supplying documents for artists: studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Starting in 1898, institutions such as the Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris bought his photographs. The latter commissioned him ca. 1906 to systematically photograph old buildings in Paris. In 1899 he moved to Montparnasse. While being a photographer Atget still also called himself an actor, giving lectures and readings. During World War I Eugène Atget temporarily stored his archives in his basement for safekeeping and almost completely gave up photography. Valentine's son Léon was killed at the front. Berenice Abbott, while working with Man Ray, visited Atget in 1925, bought some of his photographs, and tried to interest other artists in his work. She continued to promote Atget through various articles, exhibitions and books, and sold her Atget collection to the Museum of Modern Art in 1968. In 1926, Valentine died, and Man Ray published several of Atget's photographs in his La Révolution surréaliste. Abbott took Atget's portrait in 1927. Eugène Atget died 4 August 1927 in Paris.

Some of his works

  Rags collector, 1899

Au Tambour, 1908

Hameau de la reine, Versailles, 1926

Saint-Cloud, 1924

Prostitute waiting in front of her door, 1921

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Rue de Bretonvilliers, Île Saint-Louis, Paris, Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, 1924, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Pratt Size: actual: 22.8 x 17.7 cm (9 x 6 15/16 in.)

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/285960