Atget's Ancien Regime

[image error]"Hôtel de Marquis de Chantosme, 6 rue de Tournon," 1900 (Printed 1900-1927), International Center for Photography.You may recognize this elegant photograph as one of Eugene Atget's portraits of turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Paris. Atget specialized in these still, pristine, balanced compositions of windows and doors, storefronts and cobblestones. Few people live in his Paris, though there is every sign of human civilization.  An exhibit at the International Center for Photography, entitled "...