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 (ät-zhā′), Jean Eugène 1857-1927.
French photographer noted for his documentary photographs of Paris and its inhabitants.
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Atget

(French adʒe)
n
(Biography) (Jean) Eugène Auguste. 1856–1927, French photographer, noted for his pictures of Parisian life
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(Before leaving Paris she purchased Atget's archive with borrowed funds and made it her mission to promote and sell, a bittersweet burden she carried through her life.) She had fleeting loves and friendships and a few that lasted; her romantic connections were mostly if not all women.
When I visit the Wilson Centre at its home in Belsize Park, London, in early April, Hope Kingsley, the curator for education and collections at the centre, has just finished putting away the prints she has been showing to a group of MA students from the Courtauld--urban photographs including works by Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott.
Included in the gift, as the museum would soon learn, were a total of seventy-three works: etchings by Eugene Delacroix, Edouard Manet, and Charles Meryon; a lithograph by Edvard Munch and another by Odilon Redon; a Felix Vallotton woodcut; ten exquisite Eugene Atget photographs; and drawings or sketches by Balthus, Glen Baxter, Pierre Bonnard, George Booth, Charles Burchfield, Edward Lear, James Thurber, Bill Traylor, and Edouard Vuillard.
In Paris, Abbott also befriended the then-elderly photographic pioneer Eugene Atget, and after his death she purchased his archive, which would become something of an albatross for her.
Walter Benjamin famously declared Eugene Atget's lonely and cryptic photos of Paris as "crime scenes".
Estrella says that the material on the webpage was produced by over 1,100 authors including renowned visual artists such as Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Austin, Bernardo Bellotto, Eugene Atget, Jan van der Heyden, Johannes Vermeer, Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Fox Talbot.
The fine art project is influenced by French painters Theodore Rousseau and The Barbizon School; the films of Francois Truffaut and Eric Rohmer; photographs of Eugene Atget and Brassai--and films his father would bring home to play in the family's darkened basement.
Y si la fotografia de Eugene Atget es precisamente el tipo de imagen que tritura el cliche verbal, lo sabido, lo dado por hecho, en el otro extremo estara la imagen fotografica de prensa, celebracion del cliche, clausura de la senal secreta, de lo por comprender, de la historia que emerge y se entreve.