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Eugene Atget - update

"The few firsthand accounts of Atget's life agree that he was extremely strong willed and consumed with his photographic mission. Determinedly middle-class, Atget was exceedingly frugal and unconcerned with material goods. He wore old clothes, reused paper until there was no room left to write upon it, and lunched on bread and milk (because of digestive problems but also, he said, because anything more was "immoderate luxury"). Atget was opinionated, combative in defending his views, and skeptical of anything new. Fiercely independent, he refused to join groups of any kind and generally avoided working on commission".

http://www.nga.gov/feature/atget/bio.shtm

http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/eugene.htm

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Eugene-Atget.html

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1763
 
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