At the start of 1890, Eugène Atget pinned a sign to the front door of his apartment. Documents pour artistes It was an advert for business and a declaration that Atget was now a photographer. Photography had not been his first choice. He came to it through work as a sailor, an actor, and finally … Continue reading "Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris"
Eugène Atget, in full Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, (born February 12, 1857, Libourne, near Bordeaux, France—died August 4, 1927, Paris), French commercial photographer who specialized in photographing the architecture and associated arts of Paris and its environs at the turn of the 20th century. Very few biographical facts are known about Atget. The Atget family (originally Atger) were saddlers and carriage-makers who had moved from Provence to the Dordogne River region after the Napoleonic Wars. When Atget was five his father died; his mother died soon afterward. In his early youth Atget apparently spent some years at sea, and by the time
At the start of 1890, Eugène Atget pinned a sign to the front door of his apartment. Documents pour artistes It was an advert for business and a declaration that Atget was now a photographer. Photography had not been his first choice. He came to it through work as a sailor, an actor, and finally … Continue reading "Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris"
Drawing from its expansive collection of Eugène Atget's work, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is exhibiting more than 100 of the photographer's images, with a show title inspired by the artist himself.
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Exhibition dates: 24th August – 4th November 2012 Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927) Fireplace, Hôtel Matignon, former Austrian embassy, 57 rue de Varenne, 7th arrodissement 1905 …
Offering a new Fine Art quality archival pigment reprint of this Eugene Atget photograph "Fontaine de L'Obervatoire, Jardin Marco Polo, Paris" by the sculptor Carpeaux, 1901. It is a high quality reprint, unframed, approximately 7.5x10" on 8.5x11" archival fine art paper, suitable for matting, framing and display. Atget work spans over the first quarter of the twentieth century. He was not well known in his lifetime but made a living taking photographs of the streets, parks, trees and architecture of Paris, block by block, at a time when the old city of Paris was fast disappearing. He sold his work to archives, museums, stage designers and artists to develop their painting skills. This Fine Art reprint comes from the Fine Art Los Angeles Early Masters Collection, a unique group of fine art prints from the earliest periods of photographic history. Your print will not have a watermark and will be shipped in a rigid photo mailer for it's protection. FREE SHIPPING in the U.S. Enjoy!
Eugène Atget (February 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his work only gained wide attention after his death. Born outside the French city of Bordeaux, he was orphaned at seven and raised by his uncle. In the 1870s, after finishing his education, Atget briefly became a sailor and cabin boy on liners in the Transatlantic. Between 1897 and 1927 Atget captured the old Paris in his pictures. In addition to architecture and the urban environment, he also photographed street-hawkers, small tradesmen, rag collectors and prostitutes, as well as fairs and popular amusements in the various districts. 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."
Il est considéré comme le père de la photographie moderne. Eugène Atget (1857-1927) a fasciné les surréalistes et influencé les plus grands photographes,…
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« On se souviendra de lui comme d'un historien de l'urbanisme, d'un véritable romantique, d'un amoureux de Paris, d'un ...
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In an effort to bring the George Eastman House archive online, Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director at George Eastman House in Rochester New York, has announced partnership with Clickworker, an international crowdsourcing company. The project involves photo-tagging of more than 400,000 images from the George Eastman House, one of the world's oldest photography museums. Using a guided and tiered tagging system, Clickworker hopes to bring the Eastman archive into the digital age, making the photographs accessible to the public — in many instances, for the very first time. To get these images online, Clickworker is using its global crowd of paid "clickworkers', more than 115,000 strong.
Eugène Atget Enfance et premières années Eugène Atget est né d'un couple d'artisans de la banlieue parisienne. Orphelin à l'âge de cinq ans, Eugène Atget est élevé par ses grands-parents. Après de courtes études secondaires, il s'embarque comme mousse...
The period of the affirmation of photography coincides with that in which the French capital was the center of world artistic culture, that is the 1800s and
