Joueur d'orgue à Paris, 1898
Eugène
Atget
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Joueur d'orgue à Paris, 1898
This photograph of an organ player in a Paris street is from the ‘Picturesque Paris’ series created by Atget at the very end of the 1890’s. The symbol of a disappearing profession in a street of the capital, roving musicians greatly contributed to the diffusion of ideas or news in the same way as newspapers. In fact, beyond several common varieties of popular music, their repertoire was often inspired by important events or outstanding news items, providing advertising for these events.
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Eugène
Atget
In spite of his fame, we don’t know much about Atget’s life. He began
photography in 1888 and, about 1890, began to make self-taught
photographic documents for artists. At first, he photographed landscapes
and vegetation. Then about 1897-1898, at the period when the Commission
of Old Paris was created, he took it upon himself to systematically
photograph the old areas of Paris earmarked for disappearance, as well
as the small trades, condemned by the advent of the big stores. At the
end of his life, he took photographs of parks and shop windows with
reflections which made him famous with the surrealist artists.
Berenice Abbott, ManRay’s assistant wrote about Atget:
« He will be remembered as a historian of urbanism, a true romantic, a
lover of Paris, a Balzac of the camera, who permits us to weave together
a picture of French civilization.»
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