Early years
Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget was born 12 February 1857 in Libourne. His father, carriage builder Jean … 展开

The beginning of photography and photography of Paris
Atget took up photography in the late 1880s, around the time … 展开

Atget and the problem of the archive
The principle of the archive is considered as the basis of the artistic program by many researchers of Atget's work. The research of Maria Morris Hamburg and John Szarkowski corrected the understanding of Atget's … 展开

One of the earliest analytical texts about Atget is Walter Benjamin's essay A Brief History of Photography (1931). Benjamin views Atget as a forerunner of surrealist photography, effectively … 展开

By 1891 Atget advertised his business with a shingle at his door, remarked later by Berenice Abbott, that announced “Documents pour Artistes”. Initially his subjects were flowers, animals, landscapes, and monuments; sharp and meticulous studies … 展开

Man Ray, who lived on the same street as Atget in Paris, the rue Campagne-Première in Montparnasse purchased and collected almost fifty of … 展开

He will be remembered as an urbanist historian, a genuine romanticist, a lover of Paris, a Balzac of the camera, from whose work we can weave a large tapestry of French civilization.— … 展开