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…