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Saint-Cloud

Date

1926

Creator

Eugene Atget

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

In the years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, Eugène Atget photographed the momentous changes to the city of Paris. As factories replaced old neighborhoods, and residential districts expanded into the countryside, he took his camera into old historic districts that he knew well. The Paris Historic Library collected his photographs as documents. Atget’s late photographs represent deserted parks and gardens, green, open spaces within the city. One of his favorite places was Saint-Cloud, the park built around a seventeenth-century royal chateau destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War. The absent palace and deserted landscape contrast man’s design and nature’s urgency for regrowth. In this view, a promenade of trees planted in rows in the seventeenth century, and meticulously trimmed for centuries, they now grow tall and branch freely. To Atget and the knowing viewer, the landscape evokes the encroachment of nature and the passage of time. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)

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In the years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, Eugène Atget photographed the momentous changes to the city of Paris. As factories replaced old neighborhoods, and residential districts expanded into the countryside, he took his camera into old historic districts that he knew well. The Paris Historic Library collected his photographs as documents. Atget’s late photographs represent deserted parks and gardens, green, open spaces within the city. One of his favorite places was Saint-Cloud, the park built around a seventeenth-century royal chateau destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War. The absent palace and deserted landscape contrast man’s design and nature’s urgency for regrowth. In this view, a promenade of trees planted in rows in the seventeenth century, and meticulously trimmed for centuries, they now grow tall and branch freely. To Atget and the knowing viewer, the landscape evokes the encroachment of nature and the passage of time. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)
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  • In the years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, Eugène Atget photographed the momentous changes to the city of Paris. As factories replaced old neighborhoods, and residential districts expanded into the countryside, he took his camera into old historic districts that he knew well. The Paris Historic Library collected his photographs as documents. Atget’s late photographs represent deserted parks and gardens, green, open spaces within the city. One of his favorite places was Saint-Cloud, the park built around a seventeenth-century royal chateau destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War. The absent palace and deserted landscape contrast man’s design and nature’s urgency for regrowth. In this view, a promenade of trees planted in rows in the seventeenth century, and meticulously trimmed for centuries, they now grow tall and branch freely. To Atget and the knowing viewer, the landscape evokes the encroachment of nature and the passage of time. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)
  • In the years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, Eugène Atget photographed the momentous changes to the city of Paris. As factories replaced old neighborhoods, and residential districts expanded into the countryside, he took his camera into old historic districts that he knew well. The Paris Historic Library collected his photographs as documents. Atget’s late photographs represent deserted parks and gardens, green, open spaces within the city. One of his favorite places was Saint-Cloud, the park built around a seventeenth-century royal chateau destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War. The absent palace and deserted landscape contrast man’s design and nature’s urgency for regrowth. In this view, a promenade of trees planted in rows in the seventeenth century, and meticulously trimmed for centuries, they now grow tall and branch freely. To Atget and the knowing viewer, the landscape evokes the encroachment of nature and the passage of time. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)
  • In the years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, Eugène Atget photographed the momentous changes to the city of Paris. As factories replaced old neighborhoods, and residential districts expanded into the countryside, he took his camera into old historic districts that he knew well. The Paris Historic Library collected his photographs as documents. Atget’s late photographs represent deserted parks and gardens, green, open spaces within the city. One of his favorite places was Saint-Cloud, the park built around a seventeenth-century royal chateau destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War. The absent palace and deserted landscape contrast man’s design and nature’s urgency for regrowth. In this view, a promenade of trees planted in rows in the seventeenth century, and meticulously trimmed for centuries, they now grow tall and branch freely. To Atget and the knowing viewer, the landscape evokes the encroachment of nature and the passage of time. from Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame (exhibition, 2020-21)
Eugene Atget (French, 1857 - 1927)
1926
Photographs
Gelatin silver print on printing-out-paper
2002.020
allées
French
parks
reflecting pools
trees
urns
Not on view, please request access
7 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (18.1 x 23.2 cm)
Milly Kaeser Fund

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