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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...