Atget
Americannoun
noun
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So when she couldn’t identify a piece by French photographer Eugène Atget, it felt like an embarrassing lapse.
From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2022
In Paris, Abbott became known for portraits of leading cultural figures, including James Joyce and Janet Flanner, and for championing the work of the then little-known Eugène Atget.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021
The virtual collection surveys works by 18 prominent 20th-century photographers including Eugène Atget, Ilse Bing, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mark Cohen.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2020
This meant that it had been given a certain look: monumental, monolithic, luminous, lapidary, imbued with the moody stillness of Stoller’s stated influence, the pioneering French documentary photographer Eugène Atget.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2019
She pulls out an oversized volume of photographs of Paris, by Atget.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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