Eugène Atget
Apr 09, 2019
2 minutes
Towards the end of the famous Western, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (Paramount, 1962), the newspaperman Maxwell Scott delivers the line, ‘This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.’ Eugène Atget (1857-1927) is a particularly fit candidate for this column,
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