File:Eugène Atget, Zoologist's Shop - Getty Museum.jpg
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[edit]Eugène Atget: Naturaliste, rue de l'école de médicine (Zoologist's Shop)
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| Title |
Naturaliste, rue de l'école de médicine (Zoologist's Shop) |
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| Description |
English: Who were the customers for such an establishment, with its large display windows revealing a most curious product?
As unlikely as an encounter with this gruesome storefront seems, Eugène Atget chose to photograph it so as to emphasize its accessibility to the passerby on the street; the sidewalk, curb, and brick road take up fully one-third of the frame. The distance from the window also allows for a bit of mystery concerning the creatures or parts being preserved within the jars. Like many of the figures captured in Atget's photographs, the skeleton of the ape appears to be eyeing the photographer cautiously and curiously as Atget goes about recording him. |
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| Date | between 1926 and 1927 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Gelatin silver print | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Image: 22.5 x 17.9 cm (8 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
90.XM.64.15 |
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| Inscriptions |
Markings: Wet stamp imprinted verso: Berenice Abbott rue Servardoni collection stamp. Inscription: Inscribed in negative: negative number "151". Secondary Inscription: Inscribed verso print in pencil in the hand of André Jammes: "coll. Florent Fels/AJ" and "Expos Musée de l'Elysee, Lausanne, 1986" and dealer's inventory number. Inscribed verso print in pencil in unknown later hand: Atget's negative number "151"; and in blue pencil: "5" and rectangle with diagonal lines. |
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| Source/Photographer |
The Getty Center, Object 69975
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The author died in 1927, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or fewer.  You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that Mexico has a term of 100 years and does not implement the rule of the shorter term, so this image may not be in the public domain in Mexico. |
| This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. | |
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