Eugène Atget's "Impasse des Boeufs, rue Valette" is an albumen print documenting a narrow Parisian street corner with characteristic early 20th century architecture and street life. The photograph exemplifies Atget's documentary approach to capturing the urban landscape of Paris before modernization, with the print numbered and titled in pencil on verso suggesting its place within his vast catalogued body of work. Atget's methodical recording of such modest architectural and street scenes became foundational to modernist photography and influenced generations of photographers interested in the everyday urban environment.