In Focus: Eugène Atget

$19.95 at The Getty Museum.

Gordon Baldwin Eugène Atget (1857–1927) spent nearly thirty years photographing details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, and public sculptures in his beloved Paris. Yet before his death, he was practically unknown outside of that city. His genius was first recognized in about 1924 by two young Americans living and working in Paris―Man Ray and his studio assistant, Berenice Abbott―who appreciated the elements of contradiction, ambivalence, and ambiguity in Atget's images of Parisian…