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Eugene Atget
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Eugene Atget
(b Libourne, nr Bordeaux, 12 Feb 1857; d
Paris, 4 Aug 1927).
French photographer. An only child of
working-class parents, he was orphaned at an early age and
went to sea. Determined to be an actor, he managed to study
at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique in Paris for a year
but was dismissed to finish his military service. Thereafter
he acted for several seasons in the provinces but failed to
distinguish himself and left the stage. An interest in
painting but lack of facility led him to take up photography
in the late 1880s. At this time photography was experiencing
unprecedented expansion in both commercial and amateur
fields. Atget entered the commercial arena. Equipped with a
standard box camera on a tripod and 180*240 mm glass
negatives, he gradually made some 10,000 photographs of
France that describe its cultural legacy and its popular
culture. He printed his negatives on ordinary albumen-silver
paper and sold his prints to make a living. Despite the
prevailing taste for soft-focus, painterly photography from
c. 1890 to 1914, Atget remained constant in his
straightforward record-making technique. It suited the
notion he held of his calling, which was to make not art but
documents.
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Avenue des Gobelins, 1925
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La Marne a la Varenne, 1925-27
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Shop, avenue des Gobelins
1925
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Cour, 28 rue
Bonaparte
1910
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Joueur d'orgue
1898-99
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Notre Dame
1925
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Hotel des Archeveques
de Lyon, rue Saint-Andre-des-Arts, 58
1900
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Versailles
1905
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Versailles, parc
1901
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Ambassade d'Autriche, 57 rue
de Varenne
1905
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Au Tambour, 63 quai de la Tournelle
1908
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Un Coin du quai de la Tournelle,
5e arrondissement
1910-11
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Fontaine du passage,
6 rue des Guillemites
1911
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Charenton, vieux moulin
1915
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Prostitute, Paris
1920s
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Saint-Cloud
1921-22
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Saint-Cloud
1924
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Quai d'Anjou, 6 a.m.
1924
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Trianon [Pavillon Francais]
1923-24
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Ragpicker
1899-1900
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Marchand abat-jours
1899-1900
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Rue du Maure
c. 1908
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91, Rue de Turenne
1911
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Montmartre, maison
de musette
1923
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Rue des Ursins
1923
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Fete du Trone de
Geant
1925
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Paris, Palais Royal
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Coin de la Rue Valette et Pantheon
1925
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Parc de Sceaux
1925
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