Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève — Eugène Atget

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Artist: Eugène Atget
Date: 1898
Medium: albumen print, gold toned
Location: Cleveland Museum of Art
Dimensions: [object Object]
Collection: Photography
Culture: France, 20th century
Credit line: John L. Severance Fund

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Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget, the 'flâneur' photographer, meticulously documented the vanishing street scenes and architecture of old Paris before modernization.

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