Word: flowerman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most remarkable pictures in this series is that of the little girl dancing to the organ grinder's tune. Atget has caught a mood that is beautiful and profound. The beatific smile of youth contrasts with sullen resolution of old age. In the portraits of the Ragpicker, Flowerman and Prostitute, Atget posed his subjects. At other times he caught people when they were so absorbed as to be motionless. But in this as in other respects Atget was a deliberate primitive. The technique was not without hazard. In one picture, a view along the Seine, exposed for the usual twenty...
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