Eugène Atget

EXHIBITION Sep 29 — Dec 22, 2007

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Commissariat au de Police du marché aux chevaux, Tous Louis XV, rue Geoffroy St. Hilaire, ca. 1922

albumen print, printed ca. 1922

21,5 x 17,8 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Commissariat au de Police du marché aux chevaux, Tous Louis XV, rue Geoffroy St. Hilaire, ca. 1922

albumen print, printed ca. 1922

21,5 x 17,8 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Rue de la Montagne St. Geneviève, ca. 1926

albumen print, printed ca. 1926

23 x 17,9 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Boutique empire, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, 21, 1902

albumen print, printed ca. 1902

21,5 x 16,5 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Vielle cour, 18 Rue Madame (Interior Courtyard and Couple), 1910

albumen print, printed ca. 1910

21,7 x 18,2 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Parc de St. Cloud, 1904

albumen print, printed ca. 1904

17,5 x 22,1 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Parc de St. Cloud (Reflecting Pool and Trees), 1904

albumen print, printed ca. 1904

17,8 x 22,2 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Hotel Le Charron Quai Bourbon, ca. 1903

albumen print, printed ca. 1903

22 x 17,5 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

St. Julien le Pauvre, ca. 1898

albumen print, printed ca. 1898

17,6 x 21,9 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Hotel de Villars, 116 Rue de Grenelle, ca. 1906

albumen print, printed ca. 1906

18,1 x 22 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857–1927)

Vigne vierge, 1902

arrowroot print, printed ca. 1902

17,8 x 23,0 cm

© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

On display at Kicken II is an exquisite selection of works by EUGÈNE ATGET (1857-1927). Atget’s work acts as a wonderful counterpart to the photography of JOACHIM BROHM (on display at Kicken I), for both explore the art of documentary photography and the possibilities it offers. ATGET’S Paris photographs are considered to have served as early prototypes for Modernist and Surrealist photographers. At the same time, his imagery documented an old Paris that has all but vanished, whose streets can only be wandered today through ATGET’S pictures. (Mareike Stoll)