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Early in his photographic career, Eugène Atget photographed laborers in the countryside, such as the harvesters pictured here, so reminiscent of those in many 19th-century French paintings. Atget’s earliest stock of photographs, intended as aids for artists, included “landscapes, animals, flowers, monuments, documents, and foregrounds for painters.”

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