Artist field note

Eugène Atget

The city becomes an archive before it disappears.

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Parc de Sceaux by Eugène Atget
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Parc de Sceaux

1925

Clipped trees and water turn a historical garden into an uncanny geometry.

The five in one idea

Atget's systematic record of Paris became a haunting meditation on urban time.