Eugène Atget, Magasin, avenue des Gobelins (1925)

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PRIMARY MATERIALS FOR October 1

View the photograph: Eugène Atget, Magasin, avenue des Gobelins

Download a high-resolution jpg of the photograph from the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

View another version of this same photograph on the collections webpage of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in New York.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY (Complete BEFORE you come to class):

Research and curate 5 photographs by Atget or connected with urban photography in the late 19^th or 20^th C; bring in to share

As part of your curated image collection, write and bring in a short paragraph (approx. 150-200 words) explaining why you chose the photographs you did. Your reasons may be connected with any aspect of the photograph/s.

Intertexts/dialogues:

Charles Marville (photographer, also first official photographer of the city of Paris)

Berenice Abbott (photographer, also curator of Atget’s legacy, active in Paris and New York)

Marcel Duchamp (artist, active in Paris)

Man Ray (photographer and artist, active in Paris)

Jacques-Henri Lartigue (photographer, active in Paris)

Germaine Krull (photographer, active in Paris)

Robert Doisneau (photographer, active in Paris)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (photographer, active in Paris)

Alfred Stieglitz (photographer, active in New York)

Vivian Maier (photographer, active in New York)

Martha Rosler (photographer and artist, active in New York)