L'Auberge Au Compas d'Or, 1909
Eugène
Atget
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L'Auberge Au Compas d'Or, 1909
YellowKorner and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux are delighted to publish a photograph by Eugène Atget. Due to its historic nature, this photograph is not numbered or offered as a limited edition.
Digital copy, YellowKorner publication 1 st July 2010.
© RMN / Médiathèque de l'architecture et du Patrimoine.
About the artist :
Eugène
Atget
In spite of his fame, we don’t know much about Atget’s life. He began photography in 1888 and, about 1890, began to make self-taught photographic documents for artists. At first, he photographed landscapes and vegetation. Then about 1897-1898, at the period when the Commission of Old Paris was created, he took it upon himself to systematically photograph the old areas of Paris earmarked for disappearance, as well as the small trades, condemned by the advent of the big stores. At the end of his life, he took photographs of parks and shop windows with reflections which made him famous with the surrealist artists.
Berenice Abbott, ManRay’s assistant wrote about Atget:
« He will be remembered as a historian of urbanism, a true romantic, a lover of Paris, a Balzac of the camera, who permits us to weave together a picture of French civilization.»
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