Eugene Atget: Photofile
Eugene atget was a French photographer born in 1857. He was a pioneer of documentary photography and he is well known for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of pays before it all disappeared to the time of modernization. Moss of his photographs were 1st published Bernice abbot after his death, know they are more known and well known internationally of his work. He was only noticed as a genus in his surrealistic and work by a handed of young artists in the last 2 years of his life, he did not to see sadly the day where he is know known as a great photographer and a savour to the memory of history in Paris.
Eugene’s work is very much taken on the streets and of buildings, what you notice is that a lot of buildings at the time were all made out of wood and bricks/cement if you had a shop, and housing was just made out of brick and cement.
A lot of Eugen’s work is with ought people and the reason isn’t that he didn’t want people I would say, the reason that he doesn’t have people in his images is that he had to expose every image around 4-5 hours before you successfully got a print and by doing this for such a long exposer what you see in the images are the important factors of what he wants people to remember for the architecture and street, so you see how clean, smooth the road is and you see how detreated the buildings are the reason for a possible change of buildings for this reason as they are falling apart. Something that’s great also is that he took pictures of shops that where a trend and a well-known thing is such as corsets, these are known unknown things that aren’t really open and if so not to the public eye as its hidden away in our society as its something they don’t need people looking at.
His work is very much something and he has a great documentation of this, if I chose to add longer exposer into my images this would be a very good way to add and possibly remove objects out so that I don’t have them in the image. I will have a look into his work a lot more in depth as i would possibly like to do a style of work based off his style and documentation that he did in Paris.
