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Cloître des Billettes, 24 rue des Archives
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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- 1898
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- f893b996-303c-44bf-8c07-b2ef58d694a1
From the Getty Museum record
View of the courtyard of the Cloître des Billettes [Billette Cloisters], featuring deep-set Gothic arches. Above the arches, the upper levels of the building are visible, including windows with curlicued railings. Potplants are visible in the center of the courtyard.
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