In just over three decades, the French photographer Eugène Atget made ten thousand photographic negatives that documented the cultural legacy of France and its rapidly changing capital, Paris. Atget considered himself a documentary photographer and marketed his services to artists, architects, libraries, and museums. His diverse portfolio included images of street scenes, including this portrait of a prostitute in the 19th arrondissement. He did not receive widespread recognition until the 1920s, when the American photographer Berenice Abbott published many of his images and championed his work.