Eugène Atget was not only a brilliant documentary photographer but also a flâneur—a wanderer. Detached from the bourgeois rhythms of the city he observed, he roamed Paris shooting obsessively, with the intention of recording the city’s every street and facade before modernization erased its Old World character, its secret byways and vaulted beauties. After Atget’s death in 1927, his work was published and promoted by the young American photographer Berenice Abbott, who was in Paris working as Man Ray’s assistant. She brought his oeuvre into Surrealist circles, and from there it entered the public sphere. This exhibition spans the full arc of Atget’s career, with a special focus on Abbott’s contributions. —Elena Clavarino