Eugene atget

Drawing from its expansive collection of Eugène Atget's work, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is exhibiting more than 100 of the photographer's images, with a show title inspired by the artist himself.

The Village Wardrobe. Pittsburgh, 1955. By W. Eugene Smith

Photographer Eugene Atget dedicated much of his life to capturing street scenes of Paris as it was transformed from a crowded medieval city into the modern metropolis it is today.

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…

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

View Pont des Tuileries (1911) By Atget Eugène; printing-out paper; image/sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 in. (22.6 x 17.9 cm.); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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…

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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…