Eugène Atget
Photographer, Visual Artist
1857 – 1927
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Who was Eugène Atget?
Eugène Atget was a French flaneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his genius was only recognized by a handful of young artists in the last two years of his life, and he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive.
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- Born
- Feb 2, 1857
Libourne - Also known as
- Eugene Atget
- Eugène Atget
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Libourne
- Died
- Aug 4, 1927
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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