Eugene Atget, The Old School of Medicine, Rue De La Bucherie, 1898 Virtual Museum of Canada
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Borda also links her practice to the work of Atget, another Parisian commissioned to document Paris. Like Atget, Borda sees herself as documenting her geographical surroundings before it changes through time and progress. The historical image represented here is of a street corner in Paris with the Old School Of Medicine on one corner, and a Liquor store on the other.

Eugene Atget, The Old School of Medicine, Rue De La Bucherie, 1898

Eugène Atget was born in Bordeaux, France in 1857. A photographer with a naturalist style, he focused on photographing Paris for more than 30 years. He died in 1927.


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