The Corners of Paris in the Early 20th Century in the Lens of Eugene Atget
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These pictures of unpopular Parisian streets belong to the Frenchman Eugene Atget, the ancestor of European genre photography.
He filmed architectural structures. He became a photographer at the age of 42 years. After it was discovered by Berenice Abbott, the artistic value of his works was widely recognized.
In 1968, the New York Museum of Modern Art acquired a collection of works by Atget from the Berenice Abbott archive. Today Atget is the largest figure in the history of photo art, one of the pioneers of urban photography. French writer Michel Fabyan owns a biographical novel "Atget and Berenice."
From 1888, he filmed the daily life of Paris and collected an archive of 10,000 photographs.
