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TitleEmile Zola

Creator nameRoussen, L.

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1902

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

LocationBibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsAuthors, French--PortraitsClippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

StatusFrom Atget's album of clippings, L'Affaire Dreyfus

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Phase Two

Molly Nesbit

Atget’s Seven Albums

The lines along which Atget had elaborated his sense of labor set the axis of his series straight. The axis had cut into modernity, mounting evidence, documents, a Paris which was showing itself to be much more than the pittoresque Atget called it. It is entirely possible that he had come to take that word pittoresque ironically,...

Author

Molly Nesbit

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.176-195

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32065&redirecttoanchor=109025

Chapter subject tags:Atget, Eugène, 1857-1932Working class--France--HistoryTemperance--France--HistoryPhotograph albums--France--HistoryStorefronts--France--HistoryMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)Photography--France--History--19th century

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