I can imagine him, leaving his apartment, at dawn of day, with his heavy and bulky equipment walking around in the streets holding a 13x18 camera with big bellows, a heavy wooden tripod and glass plates, The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, today my precious sources. He sold his negative glass plates not only to the Commission but to many other organisations, like Musée Carnavalet, the Bibliothèque Nationale, His first photographs were landscape pictures that he was selling to painters.Ĭommission du Vieux Paris (Municipal Commission of Old Paris), he became a photographer of Paris. Being a true artist at heart, he started practicing painting before photography. Until 1902 when she decided to move to Paris and live with him. His partner, Valentine, actress as well kept busy with her theatre activities He was then 42 years old and had just stopped acting, as he used to be in a theatre troop. In 1899, Eugène Atget rented an apartment at 17 bis rue Campagne- Première. Luxembourg Garden and Great Explorer’s Garden (Jardin des Grands Explorateurs)īoulevard de Montparnasse (famous Cafes and brasseries) Port-Royal, today a maternity hospital, was in the past a convent playing a major role in a French theological movement Boulevard René Coty (old Water manhole), rue Hallé (Houses), boulevard du Général Leclerc towards boulevard Arago and rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques (Observatoire Towards boulevard Raspail via the quiet passage d’Enfer and place Denfert-Rochereau where the Catacombes Rue Campagne-Première where lived Eugène Atget and Man Ray.
This is where the Catacombes, one of the most visited place in Paris, are located … It was before Montparnasse became the center of the Parisian artistic and cultural life, in the 1920's, when the artists moved away from Montmartre to Montparnasse, making the fame of cafes and restaurants like Closerie des LilasĪnd la Coupole. It is true that in their time, this district was essentially devoted to hospitals, from maternity hospitals to elderly homes, as well as orphanagesĪnd convents. Have described the 14th district in a way that is not really inspiring. Honoré de Balzac, Emile Zola and Walter Benjamin So familiar to me, his large photo albums somehow feel part of my memory albums.Ĭould it be a Freudian transfert, as my Parisian grand-father used the same photographic chamber. Photographs have become more and more familiar to my eyes, and a peculiar link seems to have bound me to his work, through time and space. Digging into his work more and more frequently, Atget's Since I have started strolling in Paris following Atget's footsteps, the bare minimum is to visit the street where he lived, rue Campagne-P remière in the district of Montparnasse.
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