The Art Institute of Chicago presents Paris: Photographs from a Time That Was, on view through November 6. Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, André Kertész, Jacques Henri Lartigue--some of the greatest photographers of Paris--were hardly known when they began their most innovative work. Being obscure and thus unburdened by career expectations, they experimented using the city as subject matter and backdrop and developed an entirely new approach to photographic imagery.
These photographers, in focusing on Paris, followed in the footsteps of Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the boulevard flâneurs of the late 19th century who made walking and observing city life a philosophical... MORE
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