Eugène Atget
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Eugène Atget 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. Most
Atget, c. 1890
Organ Grinder (1898)
Atget's birthplace in Libourne
Avenue des Gobelins (1927)
Flâneur
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Flâneur is a type of urban male "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer". This French term was popularized in the 19th century and has some nuanced additional meanings. Traditionally depicted a
Eugène Atget
…Eugène Atget (French: ; 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…
Paul Gavarni, Le Flâneur, 1842
Charles Baudelaire
Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877. Art Institute of Chicago.
Gustave Caillebotte, Le Pont de l'Europe, oil on canvas, 1876. Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva.