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 ...

“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 ...

Between 1898 and 1927 Atget systematically photographed streets, monuments, historic buildings and dwellings both in Paris and in the outlying areas. His meticulously categorized work was arranged in ...

Atget’s clients were primarily painters and sculptors for whom he produced images of architectural details, doorways, and antiques. During his career, he seldom photographed people and instead roamed ...

Eugène Atget (1857-1927) and others began photographing ... literary, musical. There are amateur images from family albums – picnics in Chatou (eastern Paris suburb), dinners in Perray ...

View Hôtel du Commandant de la Garde de Paris, 40 Rue Meslay Hôtel de Roquelaure, 246 Boulevard Saint-Germain architectural detail by Eugène Atget on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by ...