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May 7, 2009
Photographer Christopher Rauschenberg, the son of artist Robert Rauschenberg, and founding member of Blue Sky Photographers Collective and Gallery did a rephotographic project in the 1990s on Atget's photographs of Paris. There are some of Atget's pictures on earlier posts on junk for code.
This body of work has been published in book form as Paris Changing and Lens Culture has an article on this project.
Christopher Rauschenberg, Rue des Ursins, 199, silver gelatin print, from the series Rephotographing Atget
You can see Eugene Atget's original photo on conversations. Rauschenberg says of this project that:
As I was rephotographing Atget images, I kept seeing places that he hadn’t photographed but that seemed to me to be also rich with the feeling of his work. I photographed hundreds of those places where I felt Atget’s spirit. Included here are just six of them. I don’t claim to have been channeling Atget, or that Atget would have photographed those places were he to see them. I was walking around Paris “in Atget’s shoes” and this is where they took me.
Lucky fellow. We could do the same in Australia couldn't we?
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