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 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 ...

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 ...

Musée du Louvre, Paris. In July 1830, ... Eugène Atget Notre-Dame depuis le quai de la Tournelle (1923) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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 ...

A person visits the exhibition "Eugene Boudin, father of the Impressionnisme" during a press visit at the Marmottan-Monet Museum in Paris, France, April 8, 2025. The exhibition will open to the ...

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 ...