Eugene atget
In the first three decades of the twentieth century, Eugène Atget (1857-1927) tirelessly and sensitively photographed the city of Paris and its environs.
Eugene Atget was a French photographer which took photographs of his city Paris to show the real depth of Paris and show what it through a Parisians eye.He would usually take pictures of streets early in the morning when they would be relatively empty for example, Quai d'Anjou. Some of his photographs were based upon one or more of the six rules of photography.
Though Atget considered himself a photographic illustrator of Paris and not an artist, and refused to allow himself to be judged by fashionable contemporary artistic mores or use his socially accepted status as "artisan," he inadvertently established himself as one of the 20th century’s greatest photographers. It is the intuitive visual quality of his work that has continued to attract the attention and admiration of later photographers who—as the exhibition demonstrates—have shared ideas of the "ready-made," common aesthetic approaches, related subject matter, and the use of serial photography.
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
Eugene Atget was a French photographer which took photographs of his city Paris to show the real depth of Paris and show what it through a Parisians eye.He would usually take pictures of streets early in the morning when they would be relatively empty for example, Quai d'Anjou. Some of his photographs were based upon one or more of the six rules of photography.
Though Atget considered himself a photographic illustrator of Paris and not an artist, and refused to allow himself to be judged by fashionable contemporary artistic mores or use his socially accepted status as "artisan," he inadvertently established himself as one of the 20th century’s greatest photographers. It is the intuitive visual quality of his work that has continued to attract the attention and admiration of later photographers who—as the exhibition demonstrates—have shared ideas of the "ready-made," common aesthetic approaches, related subject matter, and the use of serial photography.
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
Below are some of his master pieces taken in France, Paris where we can 6 rules of photography applied in some of them. In his picture I like the fact that he is not only trying to show the developed and fancy side of paris which it usually is. He has tried to show the local places, church, normal wroking people and normal houses.