File:Eugène Atget, Staircase, Montmartre - Getty Museum.jpg
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Eugène Atget: Staircase, Montmartre
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Staircase, Montmartre |
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English: Historians have suggested that the solitary tree served as a kind of self-portrait in Eugène Atget's photographs. Trees were a favorite subject of the reclusive and private photographer, and they appear often as silent witnesses in his views of Paris and its environs. In a busy architecture study such as this one, the lone, winter-bare tree dominates the composition, its branches drawn carefully on the blank slate of sky. The old neighborhood's bleak textures of mildew, decaying wood and plaster, and scarred stone fill three-quarters of the frame, while the few signs of nature, such as the tree and the modest garden of the house at the left, hold forth a promise of seasonal renewal. |
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| Date | 1924 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Albumen silver print | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Image: 21.8 x 17.8 cm (8 9/16 x 7 in.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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90.XM.124.1 |
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| Inscriptions | Inscription: Inscribed verso print in pencil: title and negative number "6258". Secondary Inscription: Inscribed verso print in pencil in unknown later hand: dealer's inventory number. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Getty Center, Object 71233
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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. |
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