Boulevard de Strasbourg, Corsets, Paris, 1912, Gelatin silver print from glass negative, Image: 22.4 x 17.5 cm (8 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.), Photographs, Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris), Atget found his vocation in photography in 1897, at the age of forty, after having been a merchant seaman, a minor actor, and a painter. He became obsessed with making what he termed 'documents for artists' of Paris and its environs and compiling a visual compendium of the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that distinguish French culture and history
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