While Atget could be considered a surrealist, a cubist, and a conceptualist, his images pretend to be nothing other than what they really are. No other photographic works convey with such silent authority the message that all photography is "ready made" and accessible. It is precisely their sense of impassivity, in which the image reveals its true nature to us, which touches us most: the poetry of space is communicated through the juxtaposition of proportions and the simple centering of the image.