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Eugene Atget

Eugene Atget, 1927

  • Berenice Abbott, American, 1898-1991

Gelatin silver print

  • Image: 6 3/4 × 4 7/8 inches (17.1 × 12.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, with funds from Founders Junior Council and a National Endowment for the Arts Matching Purchase Grant

F1988.21

On View

  • Prints and Drawings W130

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Barr, Nancy. Picturing Paris, 1850 to the Present: Photographs from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 9.

Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, 1927, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, with funds from Founders Junior Council and a National Endowment for the Arts Matching Purchase Grant, F1988.21.

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