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Hôpital de la Charité
Creator
Eugène AtgetFrench Photographer · 1857–1927
All works by this person →Eugène Atget never called himself a photographer; instead he preferred "author-producer." A private, almost reclusive man, Atget first tried his hand at painting and acting, then began to photograph *vieux Paris* (Old Paris) in 1898. He photographed in part to create "documents," as he called his photographs, of architecture and urban views, but he supported himself by selling these photographs to
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- 1899
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- aad79a42-29be-4d86-9ab4-94220d8e8d57
From the Getty Museum record
View of the entrance to the Hôpital de la Charité, taken from a paved urban street. The hospital is bounded by an iron fence and there are stone columns on either side of the entrance. The entrance gate is topped by a Christian cross. A flag hangs from a flagpole at the apex of the building. To the left of the hospital is a sentry box.
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