Avenue des Gobelins

Eugène Atget

1925 · Gelatin silver print from glass negative · Photographs

Atget’s many photographs of mannequins in shop windows appealed greatly to the Parisian avant-garde, who found in the aging artist an unwitting but kindred spirit. In these pictures, the Surrealists focused on the lamination of what was inside and outside and on the lovely dissolve between fact and imagination.

Artist

Eugène Atget

Date

1925

Medium

Gelatin silver print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987