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| Versailles 1903 |
These albumen silver prints from glass negatives by Eugène Atget had their origin in the earliest decades of the 20th century. Versailles and other former royal domains near Paris were permitted a certain suggestive shabbiness in those days, appropriate to their venerability. That atmosphere has by now of course been banished forever in favor of slick restoration and massive tourism.
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| Versailles 1923 |
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| Versailles 1902 |
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| Versailles 1923 |
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| Versailles 1923 |
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| Versailles 1901 |
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| Versailles 1922 |
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| Versailles 1924 |
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| Versailles 1903 |
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| Parc de Sceaux 1925 |
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| Saint Cloud 1923 |
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| Saint Cloud 1921 |
Many of these particular prints were once owned by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), the New York photographer who did more than any other individual to establish Atget's posthumous fame. Much of the Abbott collection is now at the Metropolitan Museum, where these images are made available.