Onlyoldphotography: Eugène Atget: Café, Avenue De La Grande-Armée, 1924-25 Atget’s Interest In The Texture Of Old Paris-In The Animate, Intimate Air Of Places Much Lived In-Ran Counter To The Prevailing Popular Taste For The Eiffel Tower, The Opéra,
onlyoldphotography: Eugène Atget: Avenue des Gobelins, 1927 In this headless mannequin, clothed in a simple white uniform, Atget recognized a modern version of the commedia dell’arte clown Gilles, depicted by the eighteenth-century painter Jean Antoine
