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TitleFête du Trône

Creator nameAtget, Eugène

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1925

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsGelatin silver printing-out-paper print

LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/39593

Accession number1.1969.1641

SubjectsDocumentary photography--France--History--20th centuryPortrait photography--France--20th centuryCircus performers

StatusPp 68

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Dust

Molly Nesbit

Atget’s Seven Albums

Wassily Kandinsky was writing to Marc. It was early June of 1913 and they were preparing the second exhibition of the Blaue Reiter. While Atget had been working on his documents of modern life, a small crowd had been gathering around the same problem or, as Kandinsky said, border, the border that Atget turned to emptiness, that Kandinsky called kitsch. The crowd...

Author

Molly Nesbit

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.196-213

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32066&redirecttoanchor=109026

Chapter subject tags:Atget, Eugène, 1857-1932Photograph albums--France--HistoryStorefronts--France--HistoryParis (France)--Social conditionsPhotography, Artistic--France--HistoryPhotography--France--History--19th century

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