Cour 7 rue de Valence Eugene Aget 1922
by Vincent Monozlay
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Cour 7 rue de Valence Eugene Aget 1922
Artist
Vincent Monozlay
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Photograph
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Eugene Atget. Cour, 7 rue de Valence, June 1922. Matte albumen silver print.
Atget found his vocation in photography in 1897, at the age of forty, after having been a merchant seaman, an itinerant actor, and a painter. He became obsessed with making what he termed "documents" of Paris and its environs, and with compiling a visual compendium of the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that distinguish French culture and its history. By the end of his life, Atget had amassed an archive of over 8,000 negatives that he had organized into such categories as Parisian Interiors, Petits Metiers (trades and professions), and Vehicles in Paris.
The subject of this photograph is an early automobile garage occupying a timeworn courtyard near the intersection of rue Mouffetard and rue Monge in the fifth arrondissement. Although Atget's interest was primarily in the texture of old Paris-not the city's new promenades and modern monuments-he did make a few studies of automobiles, signs of modern times, beginning in 1922. Beside a pair of motorcycles rests an early-model Renault touring car, probably dating from 1908. It, too, may be a relic: its four-cylinder engine lies beside it.
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