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Eugène Atget
Atget's Work Room with Contact Printing Frames
1910 (ca)
Albumen silver print, from glass negative
20.9 x 17.3 cm (8 1/4 x 6 13/16 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1990, Accession Number: 1990.1026.3
LL/60266
Curatorial description (28 June 2015)
This straightforward study by Atget of his own work room offers a rare glimpse of the inner sanctum of an auteur éditeur, as he described his profession. On the table are the wooden frames the photographer used to contact print his glass negatives; at right are several bins of negatives stacked vertically; below the table are his chemical trays; on the shelves above are stacks of paper albums—a shelf label reads escaliers et grilles (staircases and grills). Atget used these homemade albums to organize his vast picture collection from which he sold views of old Paris to clients.
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