Past Exhibition
Eugène Atget
Boulevard de Strasbourg, 1912
George Eastman House collection
Eugène Atget
La Rue Quincampoix, Vue Prise de la rue des Lombards, 4e arrondissement, 1908
George Eastman House collection
Eugène Atget
Bureau de la Corporation des Joailliers et Merciers, rue Quincampoix 40, 4e arrondissement, 1908
George Eastman House collection
Christopher Rauschenberg
83, Rue du Fauberg Saint Antoine, September 28, 1997
George Eastman House collection, gift of the artist
Christopher Rauschenberg
Angle de la Rue Lhomond et de la Rue Rataud, 1997
George Eastman House collection, gift of the artist
Christopher Rauschenberg
Galerie Beujolais, September 27, 1997
George Eastman House collection, gift of the artist
Paris: Photographs by Eugène Atget and Christopher Rauschenberg
JUNE 9–AUGUST 27, 2006
his exhibition presents a survey of the George Eastman House's exemplary holdings of the work of Eugène Atget (1857–1927) alongside a contemporary interpretation of the project by the artist Christopher Rauschenberg. Atget, known for his encyclopedic and comprehensive record of the French capital in transition at the turn of the last century, is today considered one of the seminal photographic modernists. Rauschenberg's project is both an homage to Atget and an artistic study of Paris in its own right. While not attempting to replicate the exact angles and perspectives of Atget's photographs, Rauschenberg evokes their aesthetic and emotional tone.
The exhibition is curated by Alison Nordström, Curator of Photographs, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. It is the tenth in the series "New Histories of Photography," collaborations between ICP and George Eastman House made possible by the generous support of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Additional funding for New Histories 10 was received from George N. Abraham, M.D.