EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
30 August 1981
Photography View; THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON EUGENE ATGET
The photographer at the center of this fall season is Eugene Atget, turn-of-the-century recorder of Paris and environs. The Museum of Modern Art, which has had some 5,000 of his prints and negatives in its possession since 1968, is finally ready to present Atget's work in what promises to be a comprehensive and impeccably scholarly account of the photographer's career. This fall's installment, ''Old France'' (Oct. 3-Jan. 3), is the first of four major annual exhibitions collectively titled ''The Work of Atget.'' Each show is to be accompanied by a book authored by John Szarkowski, the museum's director of photography and a long-time Atget afficianado. Meanwhile Marcuse Pfeifer and Zabriskie galleries, not to let the anticipated wave of enthusiasm pass unembellished, have scheduled Atget exhibitions of their own (Oct. 17-Nov. 27 at Pfeifer, Oct. 21-Nov. 21 at Zabriskie).
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