Eugène Atget: Performing Artist in New York

About Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget was a French photographer who spent decades walking Paris and building an extensive record of its streets, shopfronts, courtyards, and fading architecture. Working with a methodical eye and plain light, he treated the city as a document to be preserved rather than a stage to be dramatized. During his lifetime he sold prints to painters, designers, and archivists, and his images later circulated through artists drawn to their quiet strangeness. In New York, the International Center of Photography revisits his afterlife in *Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation*.