Pendant l'éclipse

Eugène Atget · 1912

Before you is Pendant l'éclipse — a photograph by the French artist Eugène Atget, nineteen twelve. Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print — about 16 by 22 centimeters. In the picture, look for the crowd.

Medium Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print · Dimensions 6 7/16 × 8 5/8" (16.3 × 21.9 cm) · Credit Abbott-Levy Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden, and Family of Man Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: Untitled, A Snicket in Halifax

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, The Steerage, End of Shift, Richmond, California, Untitled, Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby