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Rephotographing Eugene Atget's photos of Paris

Rephotographing Eugene Atget's photos of Paris. I wanted to do this someday.

By Jason Kottke  •  Oct 8, 2003 at 11:38 am  •  eugeneatget   Paris   photography

There are 5 reader comments

mike  •  Oct 08 2003  •  1:44PM

This is one of the first rephotographing projects I've ever seen where almost nothing has changed.

oliver_crunk  •  Oct 08 2003  •  6:33PM

plenty o' parking back then

mike  •  Oct 08 2003  •  8:01PM

I wonder if long exposure times rendered people invisible in the older shots?

Justin  •  Oct 09 2003  •  7:12PM

Probably not original, but still interesting. Although I think the original shots are better.

There seems to be a lot of haze/fog in the background of the originals. Think that's the camera or the environment?

Justin  •  Oct 09 2003  •  7:18PM

Probably not original, but still interesting. Although I think the original shots are better.

There seems to be a lot of haze/fog in the background of the originals. Think that's the camera or the environment?

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