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Eugène Atget
(12th Feb, 1857 - 4th Aug, 1927)
La Villette, rue Asselin, fille publique faisant le quart devant sa porte (7 mars 1921)
1921
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Gérard Blot
musée d'Orsay
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
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Keywords:
medium shot
prostitute
dress
lane
street scene
ankle boot
cobblestone
portrait of a woman
woman
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About the artwork
Title:
La Villette, rue Asselin, fille publique faisant le quart devant sa porte (7 mars 1921)
Periods:
contemporary period from 1914 until today
20th century
XXth century
Techniques:
albumen print
Dimensions:
223 x 177
Inventory number:
PHO1990-14
Detail:
Série de photographies sur les prostituées de Paris commandée à Atget par le peintre André Dignimont en mars 1921
Location:
musée d'Orsay
About the author(s)
Author:
Eugène Atget
Also known as:
Jean Eugène Auguste Atget
Eugene Atget
E. Atget
Eugène Adget
Born:
12th Feb, 1857
Dead:
4th Aug, 1927
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Eugène Atget
(French:
[adʒɛ]
; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French
flâneur
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…
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