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Eugène Atget

Versailles, Maison Close, Petite Place, 1921

"Versailles, Maison Close, Petite Place", 1921. Image in the public domain.

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Introduction

Universally recognized as the pioneer of modern documentary photography and the involuntary precursor to an aesthetic that would seduce the Surrealist movement, Atget spent most of his life charting the streets, architecture, trades, and ornamental details of a rapidly and inexorably transforming Paris and its suburbs (like Versailles).

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