Eugène Atget
French photographer
Died when: 70 years 173 days (845 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Eugène Atget (French: [ad??]; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) 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.
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