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Eugène Atget

1857 to 1927 4 documented presences 2 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Eugène Atget across 2 places, from 1857 to 1926. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Eugène Atget (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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Eugène Atget was documented, and when

12 February 1857exact date
Libourneattested “Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget was born 12 February 1857 in Libourne.” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget
1878year
Parisattested “Atget moved to Paris in 1878.” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget
1890year
Parisattested “In 1890, Atget moved back to Paris and became a professional photographer, supplying documents for artists: studies for painters, architects, and stage designers.” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget
1926year
Parisattested “In 1926, Atget's partner Valentine died, and before he saw the full-face and profile portraits that Abbott took of him in 1927, showing him "slightly stooped...tired, sad, remote, appealing", Atget died on 4 August in 1927, in Paris.” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget

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Places Eugène Atget is documented in

Paris3 presences · 1878 to 1926
Libourne1 presence · 1857

Other places tied to Eugène Atget in the record

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1899year
Montparnassementioned “In 1899 he moved to Montparnasse.” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget
1901 to 1927period
Gardens of Versaillesmentioned “He made views of gardens in the areas surrounding Paris, in the summer of 1901, photographing the gardens at Versailles, a challenging subject of large scale and with combinations of natural and architectural and sculptural elements whic…” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget
1906year
Parismentioned “1906 to systematically photograph old buildings in Paris.” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget
15 June 1926exact date
July Columnmentioned “He published several of Atget's photographs in his La Révolution surréaliste; most famously in issue number 7, of 15 June 1926, his Pendant l'éclipse made fourteen years earlier and showing a crowd gathered at the Colonne de Juillet to p…” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget
15 June 1926exact date
Colonnementioned “He published several of Atget's photographs in his La Révolution surréaliste; most famously in issue number 7, of 15 June 1926, his Pendant l'éclipse made fourteen years earlier and showing a crowd gathered at the Colonne de Juillet to p…” source: Wikipedia: Eugène Atget

Documented at the same place, the same year

Clara ZetkinParis · 1878Erik SatieParis · 1878Sri AurobindoParis · 1878Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of HanoverParis · 1878Paul PelliotParis · 1878Vincent van GoghParis · 1890Frances Hodgson BurnettParis · 1890Albert CalmetteParis · 1890Charles-Marie WidorParis · 1890Louis VierneParis · 1890Nicolae IorgaParis · 1890Henry MillerParis · 1926

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