Eugene Atget, St. Cloud, 1922
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The overriding sense in Atget is that one is walking alone. There’s loneliness, but also an emotional tautness that can only come when no one else is around.
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Seeing Atget is not to see Paris, but to be in it. In all it’s glorious boredom and buttoned down emotion.
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Atget really just wanted a video camera.
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Atget is so loveable because he was a lightweight. His camera only said what it saw. It didn’t spew forth Baudrillard.
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Atget was democratic (although he was an aesthetic Marxist).
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