Eugene Atget - Atget
Eugene Atget - Atget Atget's charming postcard portraits of Paris tradespeople were his only publications during his lifetimeFew places on Earth have been as lovingly, almost fanatically, documented…
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Eugene Atget - Atget
Atget's charming postcard portraits of Paris tradespeople were his only publications during his lifetimeFew places on Earth have been as lovingly, almost fanatically, documented as Paris. This postcard series is atypical of his later work and its exact origins remain something of a mystery. Despite extraordinary growth and change, the Paris of the world's imagination is still, to a remarkable degree, the Paris of the turn of the 20th century--the Paris captured by Eug ne Atget.The postcards in this book, which were more or less Atget's only publications during his lifetime, were created near the beginning of his career, long before he was "discovered" in the 1920s and raised to the status of the poetic chronicler of the fragility of time and place.
Its images, which depict Paris' "little trades," were meant to capture the ephemeral color of life. In them,