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Eugène Atget

♂  French, 1857–1927

Eugène Atget has been in 33 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1937 and 1986.

33 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Photography 1839–1937

17 March to 18 April 1937

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

31 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Acquisitions: Photographs

13 January to 25 February 1942

Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits

4 November to 7 December 1943

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography

24 May to 17 September 1944

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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French Photographs: Daguerre to Atget

21 February to 30 May 1945

Eugène Atget, Henri Le Secq, Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) and Nancy Newhall, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Photographs

20 June 1945 to 23 June 1946

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

27 July to 26 September 1948

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography Recent Acquisitions: Stieglitz, Atget

28 March to 7 May 1950

Alfred Stieglitz and Eugène Atget were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction in Photography

1 May to 4 July 1951

Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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12 Photographers

12 July to 12 August 1951

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Then and Now

5–18 August 1952

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photographs for Collectors

1–16 October 1960

Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Harry Callahan, among others, were involved.

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographer's Eye

27 May to 23 August 1964

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography as Printmaking

19 March to 27 May 1968

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photographs Before Surrealism

3 April to 28 July 1968

Eugène Atget, André Kertész, Mathew B. Brady and Eadweard J. Muybridge, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Atget

1 December 1969 to 24 March 1970

John Szarkowski, Eugène Atget and Yolanda Hershey were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photo Eye of the 20s

4 June to 8 September 1970

Max Ernst, Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Atget's Trees

7 June to 17 September 1972

John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Public Landscapes

11 September to 1 December 1974

Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Work of Atget: Old France

3 October 1981 to 3 January 1982

John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Work of Atget: The Art of Old Paris

14 October 1982 to 4 January 1983

John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Work of Atget: Modern Times

14 March to 14 May 1985

John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Work of Atget: The Ancien Régime

14 March to 14 May 1985

John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Variants

12 December 1985 to 11 March 1986

Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.