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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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- 1924
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- f2faa189-fc4d-4799-a5af-99025a0aa6f2
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View of a crooked street, taken from a cobblestoned intersection. On the left is the former Hôtel de Sens, with arched entranceways and a turret. On the right is a multi-storey apartment building with broadsheets in French and Yiddish on the facade. A row of apartment buildings is visible in the distance.
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