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Woman selling books

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Eugène Atget: English: Secondhand Book Dealer, place de la Bastille   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Eugène Atget  (1857–1927)  wikidata:Q322030 q:cs:Eugène Atget
 
Eugène Atget
Description French photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth/death 12 February 1857 Edit this at Wikidata 4 August 1927 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Libourne 14th arrondissement of Paris
Work period 1877 Edit this at Wikidata–1927 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris (1878–1927) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q322030
Title
English: Secondhand Book Dealer, place de la Bastille
Description
English: This secondhand book dealer on the place de la Bastille was so engaged in reading from her merchandise that she ignored Eugène Atget as he made this photograph. The books--arranged on the stand in side-by-side receding rows, or lying flat against the front, or piled on top of one another--create a dynamic geometrical composition that is further underscored by Atget's diagonal perspective.

Traditionally, used books have been sold in Paris from stands like these, which are closed at night and during wet weather. This vendor used stacks of books, rather than struts, to hold the stand's lids aloft. When she was ready to close up, the dealer would fold the lids down and the fronts upward.

The famous Bastille prison that stood nearby once housed prohibited books, which were considered as dangerous as its other occupants, persons charged with crimes against the Crown. Mobs destroyed the hated structure at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
Date between 1910 and 1911
date QS:P571,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1911-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Albumen silver print
Dimensions Image: 17.1 x 22.9 cm (6 3/4 x 9 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Accession number
84.XM.1034.3
Inscriptions

Markings: Atget wet stamp verso print in black ink. Other Markings: Berenice Abbott Paris wet stamp verso print in purple ink.

Inscription: Negative number 226 and title inscribed verso print in pencil.
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The Getty Center, Object 62227

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