Eugène Atget photographed Paris from 1888 until his death in 1927. Like many people, I consider him the greatest photographer of all time. His images evoke the feeling that all the transitory ...

"Eugène Atget: 'Documents pour artistes,'" an exhibition of photographs by Atget that opened this week at New York's Museum of Modern Art, takes its name from the sign outside Atget's studio door ...

Expatriate American photographer Berenice Abbott met French photographer Eugene Atget in 1926, and his influence on her changed photographic history in the 20th Century. Abbott’s strongest ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article. The turn-of-the-century French photographer, Eugène Atget, is famous for his photographs of Old Paris.Atget was a historian as well as an artist ...

The story of Berenice Abbott and Eugene Atget is one of the classics in the history of photography. She was an intense young American photographer who had found her way to the inner art circles of ...

The sign outside the Paris studio of Eugène Atget was superlatively modest. It read: “Eugène Atget: Documents pour artistes.” What that meant was that he had photographs to sell to painters ...

In the early 1900s, French photographer Eugene Atget made quick work to capture Paris' ambience with his tripod and wooden-bellows camera. Now, a century later, a Rice University senior has been ...

Eugene Atget's best-known portrait was taken just before his death in 1927, by Man Ray's assistant Berenice Abbott. IT is telling that the man who passed to us an immortal image of a city left ...

Portrait of Eugène Atget by Berenice Abbott (1927), Collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Paris In Paris in 1924, Berenice Abbott, a young American artist, was working as an assistant to the ...