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 famous ...

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 who could ...

Eugène Atget trained his lens on the city and the people of Paris for nearly four decades. The resulting photographic archive presents an enigmatic portrait of an evolving metropolis at the dawn of ...

The turn-of-the-century French photographer, Eugène Atget, is famous for his photographs of Old Paris. Atget was a historian as well as an artist; working for institutions such as the Musée Carnavalet ...

Eugène Atget (1857-1927) is one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. He became famous primarily through his views of the "old Paris", which were coveted by collectors even during his ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1387): This image by Eugene Atget is in the great show called “Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography,” at the New York Public Library. Its caption is “Fort-Monjol, Prostitute ...

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 in ...

Eugène Atget was an early French photographer who captured images of the rapidly disappearing elements of Paris during the waning 19th century. His straight forward yet wistful style served as an ...

The slightly haggard man resembles an anonymous passer-by or a tradesman Atget would have recorded in one of his Parisian street scenes. Abbott and Ray, expatriate Americans, were instrumental in ...

Corner of the Rue de la Seine, 1924, by Eugene Atget, part of an exhibition at the Fundacion Mapfre in Madrid. Credit: Photo: © EUGENE ATGET / MAN RAY ALBUM / GEORGE ...