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April 15, 2012
In documenting old Paris Eugène Atget returned to the same location again and again. A case in point is the two photographs of Pont Marie that Atget took over a period of more than 20 years:
Eugène Atget, Le Pont Marie, 1903
Le Pont Marie is an architectonic 17th-century bridge set in the heart of Old Paris, where it connects the residential Île Saint-Louis to the right bank of the Seine.
Over 290 years latter Atget has composed the photograph of Le Pont Marie with the sycamore trees dominating the foreground and he is shooting into the light:
Eugène Atget, Le Pont Marie, 1926
Whereas the 1903 study is picturesque whilst showing the bridge in relation to the Seine's role in the life of the city the latter study is more sombre.
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