Notre-Dame depuis le quai de la Tournelle

Eugène Atget

1923 · Albumen silver print from glass negative · Photographs

Atget likely avoided Notre Dame during his early career as it was already well documented by other photographers. In his old age, however, he worked more for his own pleasure and during the last five years of his life photographed the cathedral regularly. He always viewed it in an eccentric way—either in the distance, as here, or in detail.

Artist

Eugène Atget

Date

1923

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joseph M. Cohen Gift, 2005