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| Keywords: Eugène Atget, Boulevard de Strasbourg - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork en When creating this photograph of a hairdresser's shop window Eugène Atget documented the fashionable pompadours and upsweeps of the period as well as the popular plunging necklines and draping shawls This establishment offered a wide variety of hairstyling services from cutting to dressing and a selection of wigs both full and partial To make the shop's services and wares more alluring the mannequins wear elaborate cosmetics and filmy delicate fabrics Beginning in the mid-1800s when haute couture first appeared Paris dictated the chic mode in women's styles Fashion plates and journals throughout Europe and America illustrated French garments and accessories Although Atget specifically avoided photographing subjects associated with fashion and individual display this composition reveals his fascination for how shopkeepers exhibited their wares 1912 Gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print Image 23 x 17 9 cm 9 1/16 x 7 1/16 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 69980 Markings Atget Paris wet stamp verso print Inscription Inscribed verso print - - Bd de Strasbourg ; negative number inscribed in negative credit line accession number 90 XM 64 20 PD-old-auto 1927 1912 in Paris 1912 photographs Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Photographs in the Getty Museum Boulevard de Strasbourg Paris Hairdressing shops in Paris Shop windows in Paris Fashion in 1912 | ||||
