Eugene Atget Quotes

France, Photographer
February 12, 1857 – August, 4, 1927.

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.

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

Eugene Atget
- Dumb
- Photograph
- Eloquent
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
- Today
- House
- Beautiful