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Eugène Atget

Hôtel Lambert (Île St. Louis)

1898
Albumen print.
7 x 8 1/2 in. (17.8 x 21.6 cm)
Numbered '6271' in the negative; titled, annotated '6271' in pencil, and Museum of Modern Art deaccession notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.
“He told me he was simply preserving carefully the vanishing world that he loved, and keeping an archive of important classified documents. He was a remarkably simple man, extremely modest...he was making a new statement with every picture, transcending the document and creating poetry that outlived his Paris and will outlive us all.” Julien Levy

Eugène Atget

FrenchBrowse artist