File:Eugène Atget, Three Prostitutes, rue Asselin, 1924–25.jpg
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Summary
Eugène Atget: Three Prostitutes, rue Asselin ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q322030 |
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Title |
Three Prostitutes, rue Asselin |
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Description |
English: The three amiable women posing in the doorway of a dilapidated building convey an image of friendship and leisure. Their mid-length dresses and covered legs belie the fact that they are prostitutes. Although Eugène Atget was commissioned to photograph prostitutes in 1921 by a customer writing a book on the subject, scholars have not explained his return to the subject in 1924. Berenice Abbott, who diligently worked to purchase many of Atget's negatives and prints after his death in 1927, printed this image about twenty-five years after Atget made the photograph. Abbott once remarked that "the photographs heralded as art in France in the early part of the century were the worst arty pictorials that existed anywhere." Especially offensive to Abbott was the way photographers presented their female subjects as inane pictures of the "pretty." In Atget's work, everyone from small shopkeepers to tradesmen and prostitutes was treated with dignity, an approach that Abbott defined as the "shock of realism." |
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Date | 1924–25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | Gelatin silver print | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 23.5 cm (9.2 in); width: 17.3 cm (6.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,23.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,17.3U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q29247 |
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Accession number |
90.XM.46.1 |
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Inscriptions |
Markings: Wet stamp of Berenice Abbott imprinted verso mount four times. |
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References | Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer |
The Getty Center, Object 63395
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Licensing
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
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. |
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
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