In the J. Paul Getty Museum’s newly opened exhibition “The Man in the Street: Eugene Atget in Paris,” a 1920 photograph taken in the gardens at Versailles is classic Atget. A melancholic ...

Our photographer found a Paris evacuated by the coronavirus. Credit... Supported by Photographs by Eugène Atget and Mauricio Lima Written by Adam Nossiter PARIS — For much of the last two ...

The turn-of-the-century French photographer, Eugène Atget, is famous for his photographs of Old Paris. Atget was a historian as well as an artist; working for institutions such as the Musée ...

Eugène Atget trained his lens on the city and the people of Paris for nearly four decades. The resulting photographic archive presents an enigmatic portrait of an evolving metropolis at the dawn ...

Atget (1857-1927) photographed Paris and its environs doggedly, exhaustively, and beautifully, recording façades, courtyards, shop windows, intersections, side streets, and the details of stone ...

The exhibition celebrates the recent gift of 68 photographs from the Davis couple, whose collection is united by an engagement with the human condition and a concern for social equity. This donation ...

Andre Kertesz, the Hungarian photographer who, along with Frenchmen Eugene Atget and Henri Cartier-Bresson, helped invent modern photography, was one of the most influential artists of the 20th ...

At least, that is how it seems. Garry Winogrand, Lee Freidlander, Brassai, Eugene Atget, Robert Frank, Jeff Mermelstein, Alex Webb, Saul Leiter — those are some of the names that might jostle ...

Eugène Atget (1857–1927) is known for his role as a pioneer of documentary photography, documenting all the street scenes and architecture of Paris before its modernization. Atget was a source of ...