Atget often took his pictures early in the morning in order to avoid the crowd. As a result, many of his deserted street scenes have a dreamlike quality, despite his straightforward, no-frills style.

He sold pictures as location studies to be used ... The Man in the Street: Eugene Atget in Paris,” J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive, (310) 440-7300, through Oct. 8.

In particular, it has called up the singular Paris of Eugène Atget, an early 20th-century father of modern photography in his unsentimental focus on detail. In thousands of pictures, Atget shot ...

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 ...

Books on Books 1 reproduces all 96 collotype plates from the original, as well as a translation of the original Pierre Mac Orlan text on Eugene Atget's remarkable documentation of Paris at the turn of ...

Expatriate American photographer Berenice Abbott met French photographer Eugene Atget in 1926 ... in people is seldom apparent in these pictures, which in the main have the evacuated look of ...

This instructive, engaging survey includes pictures of people—prostitutes, ragpickers, street venders—but places and things were Atget’s forte, and they are given ample space here.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israel Museum has received a gift of 200 photographs by renowned French documentary photographer Eugene Atget ... and around Paris in 10,000 pictures taken between the ...