At the right in the foreground stands a half-figure statue of the Roman goddess of ... The Man in the Street: Eugene Atget in Paris,” J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive, (310) 440 ...

EUGÈNE ATGET was a stooped-over 69-year-old carrying ... One of his most iconic photographs is of the Tuileries where a stone statue of Diana looks down on the garden’s wide path.

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 photographed Paris from 1888 until his death in 1927. Like many people, I consider him the greatest photographer of all time. His images evoke the feeling that all the transitory ...

On view are roughly 150 photos of “old Paris,” from street scenes to portraits of Parisians taken by Atget, who lived from 1857 to 1927. As a pioneer in documentary photography, the works on ...

Outside his studio in 19th-century Paris hung a sign that declared “documents pour artistes”—documents for artists—a statement that captured the modest intent of Eugène Atget. His legacy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...