Musée Carnavalet
Eugène Atget
French, 1857–1927

Details
Title
Musée Carnavalet
Artist/Maker
Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927)
Date
1898
Medium
Matte albumen silver print
Dimensions
7 3/16 x 8 7/8 inches
Credit
Anonymous gift
Accession #
2008.181
On View
Currently not on view
In a career that spanned more than three decades Eugène Atget compiled an inventory of more than 8,000 images of the city of Paris. Shunning modern photographic equipment and printing processes, Atget used an 8 x 10-inch camera and glass-plate negatives to chronicle the city's past and its transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth. His work addressed a wide range of subjects, all closely tied to his ideas about French culture as embodied in the narrow streets, courtyards, and grand buildings of "old" Paris and its surroundings.
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