Cour, 7 rue de Valence, 1922, Gelatin silver print from glass negative, Image: 17.2 x 22.7 cm (6 3/4 x 8 15/16 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, an itinerant actor, and a painter. He became obsessed with making what he termed 'documents' of Paris and its environs, and with compiling a visual compendium of the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that distinguish French culture and its history
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