Voir Paris. Collections – Expositions phantom figure

phantom figure

undulating forms marked by millennia of tradition

At the end of the 1850s

the sites The Late Neolithic

Alain Schnapp s’appuie autant sur des sources archéologiques que sur la poésie

Voir Paris. Collections – Expositions phantom figurePainters needed trees, objects, and street scenes for their compositions. Around 1897 1898, he began to photograph Paris systematically. The period was interested in the capital's heritage, and the Old Paris Commission commissioned several series from Atget, which he called Picturesque Paris, Art in Old Paris, and Surroundings. Equipped with an imposing apparatus comprising a bellows camera with a frame loaded with glass plates, the photographer