Eugène Atget

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Eugène Atget was a pioneering French photographer renowned for his atmospheric, documentary images of early 20th-century Paris that profoundly shaped modern photography.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary photographer
human
photographer
street photographer
activeYearsEnd 1927
activeYearsStart 1890
burialPlace Montparnasse Cemetery
surface form: Cimetière de Montparnasse
countryOfBirth France
countryOfCitizenship France
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1857-02-12
dateOfDeath 1927-08-04
ethnicGroup French
familyName Eugène Atget self-linksurface differs
surface form: Atget
fullName Eugène Atget self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jean Eugène Auguste Atget
genre architectural photography
documentary photography
street photography
urban landscape photography
givenName Eugène
Jean
hasCollectionAt Bibliothèque nationale de France
surface form: Bibliothèque Nationale de France

George Eastman Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
surface form: Museum of Modern Art, New York
influenced Berenice Abbott
Surrealist photographers
Walker Evans
documentary photographers
knownFor atmospheric images of Parisian streets
documenting old Paris
influence on Surrealism
influence on modern photography
photographs of Paris
languageSpoken French
mannerOfDeath natural causes
movement documentary photography
modern photography
notableWork Documents pour artistes
Vieux Paris
occupation actor
peddler of photographic documents
photographer
photographedPlace Paris
Saint-Cloud
Versailles
photographicSubject Parisian courtyards
Parisian shopfronts
architectural details
parks and gardens
streets of Paris
tradespeople and small businesses
placeOfBirth Libourne
placeOfDeath Paris
residence Paris
sexOrGender male
soldWorkAs documents for artists
soldWorkTo architects
artists
designers
styleCharacteristic emphasis on everyday urban scenes
frontality and directness
lack of dramatic effects
soft, atmospheric light
subjectOf monograph "Atget" by John Szarkowski
usedCameraType large-format view camera
usedProcess albumen prints
glass plate negatives
silver printing-out paper
wasPromotedBy Berenice Abbott
Man Ray
wasRediscoveredBy Berenice Abbott

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Walker Evans influencedBy Eugène Atget
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this entity surface form: Jean Eugène Auguste Atget
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this entity surface form: Atget