Eugène Atget

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

5

Influence

9

Resistance

6

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What Wikipedia says

Eugène Atget (French: [adʒɛ]; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, determined to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization.

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