Resumen: Eugène Atget photographed the city of Paris and its environs obsessively for almost thirty years. He discovered a market for documentary photographs of Old Paris, which were bought by artist as source material for their canvases. But for Atget, the production of photographs about old French culture was also an occasion for making art.
His photographs are unparalleled in their lucid realism and their lyrical response to the living pulse of the city and to artifacts that speak of human life in almost every social class. His images of parks, lakes, shop, windows, vendors, prostitutes, buildings, sculptures, and street scenes of Paris go beyond mere documentation to a poetic version of a time gone by Atget created some of the most beautifully articulated images of light and space ever made with a camera an imaginary world.

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