Eugène Atget photographed Paris from 1888 until his death in 1927. Like many people, I consider him the greatest photographer of all time. His images evoke the feeling that all the transitory things ...
Eugène Atget, "Vaux-de-Cernay" (1908–10/1908–27) (photo courtesy the International Center of Photography; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Likewise, while the ...
Eugene Atget, Cabaret de l’Homme armé, 25, rue des Blancs-Manteaux, IVe, septembre 1900 © Paris Musées / musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris Long before ...
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 ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Unmounted silver print by Berenice ...
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 ...
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 ...
Atget (1857-1927) photographed Paris and its environs doggedly, exhaustively, and beautifully, recording façades, courtyards, shop windows, intersections, side streets, and the details of stone ...
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 ...