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Originally Posted by Harry Hollis  Atget's work is beautiful. I think the melancholy may arise from the absence of people in a majority of his photos. When people are there they are often just a ghostly presence due to the long exposures. Absence of cars and the general detritus of modern city life looks truly wonderful, and is perhaps almost a shock to our 21st century eyes. Late in his life he photographed very early in the day, so the light is often quite magical. |
he made a lot of his photographs very early in the morning ...
while many of his images were to document olde paris before
the urban renewal project, he also photographed the "little professions"
and people who would be displaced ... ragman, bread man, barrel maker,
organ grinder, gypsy colony &C
.... interesting that a lot of the atget collection at the george eastman house
was the former collection of man ray
