Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Eugene Atget

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French photographer Eugene Atget.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Eugène Atget was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. Though he sold his work to artists and craftspeople, and became an inspiration for the surrealists, he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive.

French - Photographer | February 12, 1857 - August 4, 1927

Source: Wikipedia

For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates, 18 x 24 format, artistic documents of the beautiful civil architecture of the 16th to the 19th century: the old hôtels, historic or curious houses, beautiful facades, beautiful doors, beautiful woodwork, door knockers, old fountains This vast artistic and documentary collection is today complete. I can truthfully say that I possess all of Vieux Paris.

Eugene Atget

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

Eugene Atget

Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Eugene Atget

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