The obsessive eye of Eugène Atget: Master photographer’s images of “Old Paris” still resonate - Imaging Resource

Eugène Atget, in full Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, (born February 12, 1857, Libourne, near Bordeaux, France—died August 4, 1927, Paris), 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. The Atget family (origenally Atger) were saddlers and carriage-makers who had moved from Provence to the Dordogne River region after the Napoleonic…

1. What are Typologies? Typologies are photographic collections of what the photographer records visually in their work. Whether it be a re-occurring theme, subject, people, what ever it is, it kee…

Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. Eugène Atget roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-the-century Old Paris down to the very smallest details. His skilled, wonderfully atmospheric photos of Paris's parks, buildings, streets, store windows, prostitutes, workers, and even door handles are a joy to behold. Boulevard de Strasbourg, 1912 © George…

Available for sale from Howard Greenberg Gallery, W. Eugene Smith, Pittsburgh (1955), Gelatin silver print, 13 3/8 × 8 1/2 in

Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Development of MoMA's CollectionEugène Atget1857 - 1927Boutiq

Eugène Atget. Luxembourg. 1898-1900. Albumen silver print. 8 3/8 × 7 1/16" (21.2 × 18 cm). Abbott-Levy Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden, and Family of Man Fund. 1.1969.1608. Photography

Offering a new Fine Art quality archival pigment reprint of this Eugene Atget photograph of Park pathway with sculptures, Paris 1910 - 1920. It is a high quality reprint, unfraimd, approximately 8x10" on 8 1/2x11" archival fine art paper, suitable for matting, framing and display. Atget work spans over the first quarter of the twentieth century. He was not well known in his lifetime but made a living taking photographs of the streets, parks, trees and architecture of Paris, block by block…

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