Eugène Atget
Looking at Atget
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2005
Peter Barberie , Beth A. Price , Ken Sutherlans
pages 126
first edition
dimensions 23.5 × 30 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 0-300-11137-1
ARTISTS
Eugène Atget

Pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. He began selling his city subjects around Paris, until the National Library of France took notice of him and bought the entire collection of his photos.