CityofLight&dark Eugene Atget captured Paris' contrasts and contours Eugene Atget's photographs of Paris and the surrounding countryside, taken primarily from the 1890s through 1920s, are ...

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 ...

Long before Paris was the tourist mecca it is today, it was a desolate place with foggy night scenes and fewer people. This was captured by 20th century French photographer, Eugene Atget.

EUGÈNE ATGET was a stooped-over 69-year-old carrying a heavy load of camera equipment across Paris by the time he shot some of his greatest photographs: misty visions of Paris and its great parks ...

Take a look at our slideshow of Eugène Atget’s “untapped” photographs and get to know some of the merchants—bakers, flower girls, musicians, umbrella vendors, window cleaners, hurdy gurdy ...

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

It was around this time that a 40 year old actor named Eugène Atget embarked on his photographic archive of Paris. With an old-fashioned and extremely heavy wooden bellows camera in tow, he ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ef… ...

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 ...