Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers.

Aug 4, 2024 · These photos, taken by Eugène Atget, document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Atget took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers.

Eugène Atget (French: [adʒɛ]; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization.

Eugène Atget (French:; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur [1] and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. [1]

Feb 8, 2025 · Eugène Atget (born February 12, 1857, Libourne, near Bordeaux, France—died August 4, 1927, Paris) was a French commercial photographer who specialized in photographing the architecture and associated arts of Paris and its environs at the turn of the 20th century. Very few biographical facts are known about Atget.

Oct 1, 2004 · In the 1920s, Atget was heralded by Man Ray and the Surrealists for his photographs of window displays that melded reflections of the street with artifacts for sale, and for his pictures of places that seemed like so many theatrical stages pregnant with imminent action.

Apr 17, 2020 · Eugène Atget (1857 – 1927) is best known for his photography of the disappearing architecture of ‘Old Paris’, a project that was the focus of his career from 1897 through to the 1920s. Although he first took up photography as a professional in the late 1880s, details of his life prior to this are relatively scant.

Direct, yet enigmatic, images by Eugène Atget earned him the title of "a modern art master" in his use of photography not only for aesthetic ends, but in order to detach the image from its social and cultural referent.

Wander the charming streets of turn-of-the-century Paris captured in Eugène Atget’s photographs, and discover how they look today. Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was a groundbreaking photographer,...

Apr 29, 2024 · Eugène Atget, a pioneering figure in the history of photography, is celebrated for his evocative images of old Paris. Born in 1857, Atget’s work captures the essence of a bygone era, meticulously documenting the city’s streets, architecture, and everyday life.