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Atget’s Paris in Sepia

Atget’s Paris in Sepia

The name Eugène Atget is synonymous with the Paris of yesteryear, the world of small trades and picturesque streets. The photographer’s oeuvre now is the core of a collaborative project that includes a book published by Atelier EXB, entitled Voir Paris and an exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris.

Saint-Médard Church, the 5th Arrondissement, 1900-1901 © Paris Musées / musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris Over the course of three decades, between 1897 and 1927, Eugène Atget collected what he called “photographic documents” by visiting “all the ...

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