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accession number:	2019.85
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.85
updated:		2024-06-08 12:27:31.907000

Trees and Roots, 1900s. Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image and paper: 22.5 x 17.7 cm (8 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey 2019.85

title:				Trees and Roots
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creation date:			1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1927
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creditline:			Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey
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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	albumen print from wet collodion negative
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - French 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927)  - artist
Eugène Atget French, 1857-1927

Relatively unknown to the public during his lifetime, Eugène Atget is today an icon -- one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century. Born near Bordeaux, Atget first directed his efforts to painting and the stage before turning to photography shortly before 1890. He is best known for his documentary scenes of Paris and Versailles, but he photographed a number of other sites as well. Atget viewed his work as a historical and aesthetic record, regarding it as documentation for use by artists. Indeed, several artists are known to have painted from his images.
	Using relatively unsophisticated, even outdated equipment, Atget achieved a view of French architecture and culture that is both personal and factual. Along with the rediscovery of the images of Mathew Brady in the early 20th century, the recognition of Atget's artistic accomplishments shortly before his death by Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and others helped turn photographers away from the mannered style of pictorialism toward the visual and technical clarity of modernism. Marked by a selective and highly individual method, his is among the most widely shown, published, and recognized work in photography today. T.W.F.
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measurements: image and paper: 22.5 x 17.7 cm (8 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Halsted Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
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	Arielle Broadkey, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1976
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 3, 2019
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