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TitleL'Éclipse

Creator nameAtget, Eugène

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1912

Creation date (description)April 17, 1912

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen silver print

LocationInternational Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York

https://collections.eastman.org/objects/126946/leclipse-the-eclipse

Accession number1976.0118.0025

SubjectsPhotography--France--20th centurySolar eclipsesParis (France)--History--20th century

StatusPp 335

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Prologue

Molly Nesbit

Atget’s Seven Albums

Once, in 1926, Atget had a brush with an avant-garde. He was sixty-nine years old. The Surrealists, a group of much younger, but even so, extraordinarily brazen men, had approached him, wanting to use one of his photographs on the cover of their magazine, La Révolution Surréaliste. Such a brush is commonplace in the history of art; more...

Author

Molly Nesbit

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-11

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Chapter subject tags:Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927Surrealist artistsDocumentary photography--France--HistoryParis (France)--HistoryAbbott, Berenice, 1898-1991Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940Photography--France--History--19th centuryPhotography--France--History--20th century

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