Contributions to public and photo world

• His photographs were so precise that libraries and historical societies bought many images. 

• After two wars many of Paris’ architectural treasures were lost.  Atget's photos were what remained of the buildings

Art movement affliction

•  The first photographer to undertake the description of a city in such detailed and extensive terms.

Involvement's influence

• His work is regarded as the bridge between 19th-century topographic photography and the "art documentary photography of the 20th-century.     

• Paris and her old churches, her monuments, her miseries and her treasures were photographed by Atget 

Associations with other artists

• Other artists, would purchase his images to assist in their paintings. 

• Berenice Abbott obtained Atget's entire collection after he died and soon published it to the world.