Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Cour, 28 Rue Bonaparte, Paris

Preview image of work. gelatin silver print, Cour, 28 Rue Bonaparte, Paris 9668

1986.52

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Cour, 28 Rue Bonaparte, Paris

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Artist

Jean Eugène Auguste Atget (Libourne, France, 1857 - 1927, Paris, France)

Title

Cour, 28 Rue Bonaparte, Paris

Creation Date

1910

Century

20th century

Dimensions

7 1/16 in. x 8 9/16 in. (18 cm. x 21.8 cm.)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

Europe, France

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print

Credit Line

Museum Purchase

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1986.52

The ability of Eugène Atget’s images of streets, shop windows, and parks to seem at once straightforward and uncanny was admired by the surrealists. Atget spent his thirty-year career documenting Old Paris, taking thousands of photographs that he primarily sold to libraries and archives. In the 1920s Man Ray elevated the aging Atget from obscurity by selecting four of his photographs to be published in La Révolution Surréaliste. Many younger photographers were inspired to adopt his aesthetic of eerie emptiness in their depictions of urban streets.