This book is a comprehensive collection of 840 photographs by Eugène Atget, capturing Paris from 1897 to 1927. Arranged by district and neighborhood, the images take readers on a visual journey through eerily empty streets, highlighting the dense presence of objects like shop window shoes and an abandoned milk cart. Atget's Paris features humble tradespeople, ragpickers, and prostitutes, and although the surrealists celebrated his poetic imagery, Atget saw his work as mere documentation. Recognized as the first modern photographer, his ability to impart tragedy to the ordinary is distinctive. The book is uniquely formatted like a Parisian cobblestone in tribute.
