Paris -- Atget then -- and 100 years later

DWThomas · May 27, 2020

An interesting article in the New York Times where a photographer uses some of Atget's tripod holes to capture empty streets, this time due to corona virus.

Colin Corneau · May 27, 2020

Fantastic read, thanks for posting that! I'm a little uncertain about making conclusions about Paris' indifference to humanity from the pictures alone, but it's an interesting story all the same.

CMoore · May 27, 2020

Wow..... that is a commendable effort.
It is interesting to see how a lot of things are quite the Same/Similar, but some have changed quite a bit.
It was very effective.

I just watched a spooky video about Nazi Germany. They cut from Hitler era Nuremberg to present day, as in your Atget link.
The soundtrack was very chilling as well

pentaxuser · May 27, 2020

Interesting pictures. Not so sure about his conclusions on Paris or how he reached them.

pentaxuser

Sirius Glass · May 27, 2020

I skipped the writing and enjoyed the photographs.

guangong · May 28, 2020

Sirius Glass said:
I skipped the writing and enjoyed the photographs.

Me too!

resummerfield · May 28, 2020

Very nice! Thanks for posting!

Pioneer · May 28, 2020

Thanks Dave. I am sure it is great.

But as is common with with the New York Times online offerings, I get the text and about 10% of the pix.

That's all right. I have the Eugene Atget book set from MOMA so I can enjoy his work at leisure whether the interweb works or doesn't.

David Lindquist · May 28, 2020

Thank you for this, I saw the spread in this morning's NYT print edition. There were more photographs on the online presentation. Possible I got to see more as I also have an online subscription to the Times.

David

Paris -- Atget then -- and 100 years later

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