By: Peter Milton

Medium: Digital print
Year: 2011       
Edition of 90  
- small: image 19 x 30 inches , paper 24 x 36 inches, numbered 1-45/90
- large: image 23 x 37 inches, paper 32 x 44 inches, numbered 46-90/90      

ECLIPSE was born out of Milton's interest in the photographer Eugene Atget, and his fascination with c.1900 street photography of Paris. Work on the image went through many transformations until the focus finally settled on Atget's Paris street scene of a crowd watching the solar eclipse of 1912. It was two days after the sinking of the Titanic. The clock is announcing the two times of the two events on a single face.
In homage to Atget, Milton assembled other notable photographers associated with Paris. For those who like puzzles, there are various versions of Atget, Cartier­Bresson, Brassai, Lartigue, and Stieglitz.