Masters of Photography - Eugéne Atget
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2008
- Photography by Eugéne Atget
Atgets portrait, 1927 by Berenice Abbott
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Eugène Atget (1857 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. Born outside the French city of Bordeaux, he was orphaned at seven and raised by his uncle. In the 1870s, Atget briefly became a sailor and cabin boy on liners in the Transatlantic. After shipping on several voyages, Atget became an actor, more specifically, a bit player, for a second-rate repertory company, but without much success.
Atget finally settled in Paris in the 1890s, he saw photography as a source of income, selling his photographs to artists in the nearby town of Montparnasse. He advertised his photographs as "documents for artists." It was common practice at the time for painters to paint scenes from photographs. By 1899, he had moved to Montparnasse, where he lived and earned a modest income until his death in 1927.
Distinguishing characteristics of Atget's photography include a wispy, drawn-out sense of light due to his long exposures, a fairly wide view that suggested space and ambiance more than surface detail, and an intentionally limited range of scenes avoiding the bustling modern Paris that was often around the corner from the nostalgia-steeped nooks he preferred. The emptiness of most of his streets and the sometimes blurred figures in those with people are partly due to his already antiquated technique, including extended exposure times which required that many of his images be made in the early morning hours before pedestrians and traffic appeared.
Atget's photographs attracted the attention of well-known painters such as Man Ray, Andre Derain, Henri Matisse and Picasso in the 1920's.
Berenice Abbott was the key that unlocked Atget's Paris for the rest of the world. She got to know him in the 1920s, when she was an assistant to Atget's Montparnasse neighbor Man Ray. She attempted to help Atget achieve greater recognition during his lifetime by sending friends to purchase his work and by making a celebrity-style photographic portrait of him. After Atget's death in 1927, she acquired a large part of his archive and exhibited, printed and wrote about his work, as well as assembled a substantial archive of writings about his portfolio by herself and others. The Museum of Modern Art purchased Abbott's collection of Atget's work in 1968, and now has some 5,000 of his prints and negatives in its possession. Abbott wrote of Atget: "He was an urbanist historian, a Balzac of the camera, from whose work we can weave a large tapestry of French civilization."
He was said to be short-tempered and eccentric and in his 50s stopped eating anything except bread, milk and sugar. Atget and his wife, Valentine Delafosse Compagnon, a former actress, several years his senior, were together until her death just one year before his own.
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Every city needs a Eugene Atget. Beautiful.
He is a legend in the world of photography. We will always be thankful of your contribution in the industry.
This makes me nostalgic for a time before my birth, and a place I have never been. Wonderful photos, and a beautiful video. Many thanks.
Beautifully put together,thanks.
thanks for your comment, all the best, Cybele
magnifiques photographies d'un grand maître de cet art.....à2mn27 au 56 rue de la verrerie , monsieur Huet était serrurier de son état et dans la même cour ,à cette époque exerçait un menuisier du nom de Touraine et un imprimeur du nom de Chaupit ....
I'm glad i did a good thing. Wonderful video and series, PhotographyMasters. I especially like the work of Atget and Salgado.
thank you! very interesting and helpful as well as inspiring and touching :-)
Beautiful!
It's so beautiful!
Belle vidéo et bon choix de musique, merci!
Cybele*****
Beautiful Satie's Gymnopédie choice.Your editing is very nice.Thank you for this gift.
Antonio
loooooooove this music
Un video superbe! Merci à mizofan de me l'avoir envoyé.
I like this video. Just wanted to point out that Eugene has an accent grave over the second e and not an accent aigu as is listed in the title of the UA-cam Video.
à 2mn 52 , la maison A.Simon ,corsets se tenait précisément au 58 de ce boulevard de Strasbourg ;leur magasin principal était 14 rue de Clignancourt et ils possédaient deux autres boutiques dans Paris ,au 34 rue des Batignolles et 43 rue du commerce ....question de mode de l'époque nombreuses étaient alors dans Paris les boutiques de corsets....
thanks for the comment, and to mizofan too..
@ifellini I saw the video again today and read your comment. Next time I'll view the film, I'll try to focus on the video zooming effects. It's a video about photography not a photograph?
wow what is the name of this song???
à 2mn39 ,le marchand de vin du 15 rue Boyer ,propriétaire de cet établissement était monsieur JOULOT......
à 2mn33 au 3 quai conti en 1910 un monsieur Chrétien tenait un commerce de vins-traiteur :est-ce déjà lui qui tenait cette boutique en 1900 et si c'est le cas 'c'est peut-être lui sur la photographie.....