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Brocanteur, rue des Anglais

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Description: Brocanteur, rue des Anglais

TitleBrocanteur, rue des Anglais

Creator nameAtget, Eugène

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1911

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen silver print

LocationBibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

https://images.bnf.fr/#/detail/955521/34

Accession numberRES PHOTO PET FOL-OA-173 (A)

SubjectsDocumentary photography--France--History--20th centuryMusic halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)Retail trade--FranceParis (France)--Social conditions--20th century

StatusPp 242

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Description: Atget’s Seven Albums

Atget’s Seven Albums

Atget narrowed his idea of modernity to the populaire. Best to call it labor. So far, so good. However the document was not about to take labor up into itself as a value to be converted, or even better, used in the making of a connaissance. Neither was labor to be taken through the lens of the pittoresque. Labor was to be extricated from...

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 1992 by Yale University

Related print edition pages: pp.154-175

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32064&redirecttoanchor=109003

Chapter subject tags:Atget, Eugène, 1857-1932Working class--France--HistoryPhotograph albumsParis (France)--Social conditionsDocumentary photography--France--HistoryRagpickersPhotography--France--History--19th century

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