Eugène Atget
Versailles, Corner of the Park
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Black & white photography
Prison Sainte Pélagie
Eugène Atget, 1898
Atget's view of the Sainte-Pélagie prison in Paris, its stone facade seen along a cobbled street shortly before the building came down.
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About this artwork
This photograph shows the main facade of the Sainte-Pélagie prison in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The large stone building stretches along a cobbled street, with a guard box and a few figures standing in front of it. The prison was demolished in 1899, so Atget's picture records it close to the end of its life. It is a positive albumen print made from a glass negative, which gives the image its warm, sepia tone. The work fits Atget's wider aim of documenting the architecture and streets of Paris before they were lost to modernisation.
On your wall: The warm sepia tones and architectural subject suit a study, hallway, library or sitting room, especially where other historical or documentary pictures hang.
- Title
- Prison Sainte Pélagie
- Artist
- Eugène Atget
- Year
- 1898
- Style
- Black & white photography
- Shape
- Landscape
Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Text based on Wikimedia Commons.
About Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget was a French photographer and self-styled flâneur who set out to record the architecture and street scenes of Paris before modernisation swept them away. He sold his pictures to artists and craftspeople, and later inspired the surrealists. Berenice Abbott first published most of his photographs after his death, when his reputation began to grow.
Based on Wikipedia.
Canvas and printing
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