In Atget’s Paris, “the city is evacuated, like an apartment that hasn’t yet found its new tenant,” Benjamin wrote. Image. Saint-Étienne-du-Mont church. Image. Image.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eugene Atget’s photographs of Paris and the surrounding countryside, taken primarily from the 1890s through 1920s, are legendary in the photographic community. Now at the International Center… ...

“Rue Dupetit-Thouars,” 1998, by Christopher Rauschenberg “Rue Dupetit-Thouars,” 1911, by Eugène Atget Eugène Atget photographed Paris from 1888 until his death in 1927. Like many people ...

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 ...

It's not often that a mere concert raises fascinating issues these days, but certainly "Atget's Paris: Music From the Street to the Opera House"--Saturday night's kickoff to the Getty Center's ...