Porte de Gentilly, Bd Kellermann
Medium
Albumen print, from "Fortifications"
Dimensions
Image: 17.6 × 21.8 cm (6 15/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Paper: 18.3 × 21.8 cm (7 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
158771
About the Artist
Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget · 1857–1927
Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget was born on February 12, 1857, in Libourne, France, to working-class parents—a carriage maker father who died in 1862 and a mother who passed away soon after, orphaning him at age six or seven. Raised by his maternal grandparents in Bordeaux, Atget briefly pursued a seafaring life before moving to Paris in the late 1870s to study acting at the Conservatoire d'art dramatiq...