Eugene atget

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

Eugène Atget. Magasin, avenue des Gobelins. 1925. Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print. 8 1/4 × 6 1/2" (21 × 16.7 cm). Abbott-Levy Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden, and Family of Man Fund. 1.1969.1544. Photography

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…

Eugène Atget (French: [adʒɛ]; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur[1] and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his...

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Eugène Atget (February 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his work only gained wide attention after his death. Born outside the French city of Bordeaux, he was orphaned at seven and raised by his uncle. In the 1870s, after finishing his education, Atget briefly became a sailor and cabin boy on liners in the Transatlantic. Between 1897 and…

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Saint Cloud by Eugene Atget

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

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, unframed, 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…