"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 ...

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 ...

The Rue de Seine, with its rooftop gardens and chic storefronts, is now one of the pricier bits of the city. It certainly doesn’t look like that in Atget’s print. But in today’s pictures ...

Eugène Atget, Magasin, Avenue des Gobelins, 1925. Gelatin silver print, 8.94 x 6.63 in. (22.7 x 16.8 cm). Stamped; printed later by Berenice Abbott. Eugène Atget never called himself a photographer; ...

Eugène Atget, Magasin, Avenue des Gobelins, 1925, printed later by Berenice Abbott. Gelatin Silver print, 9.25 x 6.75 inches, 23.5 x 17.1 centimeters, frame: 14.1 x 11.4 inches, 35.8 x 29 centimeters.