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[6-8 rue de Valois]
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
- d56c7f0d-890a-4eec-b073-a564a40f8f7a
View of a five-storey building on a paved urban street. The ground floor of the building is occupied by a restaurant. Above the restaurant is a balcony with decorative iron railings, supported by curlicued columns with sculptural reliefs of lion heads. To the right, a man stands in the doorway of a bar or wine shop, facing the photographer. He has a towel over his shoulder.
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