MAKE A MEME View Large Image Eugène Atget, Metalworker's Shop, passage de la Réunion - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork en In the courtyard of his shop a metalworker stands with one hand on his hip; a stiffly posed woman presumably his wife appears in a window above him; and ...
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Keywords: Eugène Atget, Metalworker's Shop, passage de la Réunion - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork en In the courtyard of his shop a metalworker stands with one hand on his hip; a stiffly posed woman presumably his wife appears in a window above him; and a man stands in the distance at the end of the alley The locations of these three people all of whom direct their attention at the photographer form a dynamic triangle The passage de la Réunion provided a spatially exciting subject for Eugène Atget who would have observed the alley's various planes created by straight and curving walls and their relationship to the patterned road For this photographer concerned with places and aspects of Parisian life that were disappearing this alley essentially unaltered from a much earlier period was an ideal subject for his photographic collection Atget sold images such as this one to artists who then used the photographic documents as source material for their own work 1911 Albumen silver print Image 21 6 x 17 8 cm 8 1/2 x 7 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 70093 Inscription Title and negative number 310 inscribed verso print in pencil Secondary Inscription Inscribed verso print in the hand of André Jammes Anc coll x v par A Brieux and Chaudronnerie rue du Maure Expos Paris Berlin no 388 credit line accession number 90 XM 64 133 PD-old-auto 1927 Coppersmiths Artisans from France 1911 Metal gates in France Gates in Paris 1911 Passage de la Réunion Paris Reunion passage de Historical images of streets in Paris Reunion passage de Historical images of Paris 3e arrondissement Reunion passage de Passage du Maure Paris 1911 1911 photographs Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Photographs in the Getty Museum
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