Eugene atget

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Eugene Atget , Paris

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. 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

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 (originally Atger) were saddlers and carriage-makers who had moved from Provence to the Dordogne River region after the Napoleonic…

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…

Image 3 of 23 from gallery of Three Defining Movements in Architectural Photography. Eugène Atget. Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève, 1898. Credits: MoMA; Abbott-Levy Collection. Gift from Shirley C. Burden. Sob termos de "Fair Use"