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Eugène Atget

(French, 1857–1927)

hôtel d'ecquevilly, 60 rue de turenne, 3rd arr. by eugène atget

Eugène Atget

Hôtel d'Ecquevilly, 60 rue de Turenne, 3rd arr., 1901

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hôtel 132, [137] rue vielle du temple by eugène atget

Eugène Atget

Hôtel 132, [137] rue Vielle du Temple, 1901

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versailles (faune) by eugène atget

Eugène Atget

Versailles (Faune), 1901

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Biography

Timeline

1857
Born in Libourne, Gironde, France
1879
Enters the Conservatoire national de musique et d'art dramatique, Paris, France
1898 - 1914
Sold the majority of his work
1898
Began photography Vieux Paris (Old Paris)
1927
Died in Paris, France

Exhibitions

2010
Realismus - das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
In Focus: The Worker, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Atget, Archivist of Paris, ICP International Center of Photography, New York (solo)
2009
The 70s. Experience and Documentation in Everyday Life, PhotoEspaña 2009, Madrid
Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit, Greaphikmuseum Pablo Picasso, Münster, Germany
Universal Archive, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Das Leben der Dinge, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Retrospective - Eugène Atget, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin


Parks and Trees, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne (solo)
Paris um 1900 - Retrospektive, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)

Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ICP - International Center of Photography, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles
Musée d´Orsay, Paris
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Fotostiftung Schweiz (Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie), Winterthur, Switzerland

Literature

2009
Situational Aesthetics, Leuven University Press, 2009
2008
Exhibition catalogue 2008 in Winterthur: Ed. Bibliothèque Nationale de France und Berliner Festspiele, deutsche Ausgabe published by Nicolai Verlag, Berlin
1998
Krauss, Rosalind: Die diskursiven Räume der Fotografie, in: dies.: Das Photographische Eine Theorie der Abstände, München, 1998
1984
Reynaud, Françoise: Eugène Atget. - Paris: Centre National de la Photographie, 1984
1980
Hambourg, Maria Morris: Eugène Atget, 1857-1927 : The Structure of the Work,Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1980
English (US)

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