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Eugène Atget's exhaustive portraits of a Paris that no longer exists

"Eugène Atget spent a lifetime documenting a Paris that has now disappeared", writes Angel Gurria-Quintal about the photographer who was born 150 years ago. "The Bibliothèque Nationale has put together the first retrospective of his work to be shown in France. ... The astonishing collection illuminates the career of one of photography's neglected masters, and brings to life a city that no longer exists. ... He had witnessed, during the 1850s and 1860s, the destruction of almost two-thirds of medieval Paris under Baron Haussmann's planning schemes. As late as the 1890s, when Atget took to walking the streets with his camera, whole blocks of old Paris continued to be demolished. His work became a labour of conservation. ... There is an intense nostalgia about the photographs in this show. It does not originate in the distance separating us from pictures taken a century ago, but in the feeling that this cityscape was vanishing even as Atget set out to capture it."

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