Atget’s friend and executor André Calmettes said that Atget was inconsolable, but he continued to work for another year.During Atget’s lifetime his work was relatively unknown. Eugene Atget was born in France on February 12, 1857. In 1920 he returned to work with renewed vigour and a new, expanded, sense of his subject. Eugène Atget (French: [adʒɛ]; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization.
Apart from this, he also took images of prostitutes.Eugène Atget’s work is filled with a wide array of subjects and with interesting techniques, such as long exposures and wide views. In his final years he produced a remarkably high percentage of his most beautiful and most original work, including the best of his photographs of shop windows, street fairs, and the Parc de Saint-Cloud, as well as the most touching of his records of the still-rural towns of the Paris environs.
At the time, photography was becoming a popular skill especially in fields of commercialism and those that were just rising.
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Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions.Davis, Douglas. 'Looking at Atget's and Abbott's Prints: The Photographic Materials.' Text Excerpt from The early photographic work of Eugene Atget: 1892 – 1902. At the time he was alive, his work received limited recognition however he did not live to see the way his work eventually gained acknowledgement.Then he moved towards photography. Photographer and curator John Szarkowski discussing the photographs of Eugène Atget, from the documentary Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail.
New York: The New PressKozloff, Max. After the war, he started photographing parks in Sceaux, Saint Cloud and Versailles. In that year Atget wrote to Paul Léon, minister of fine arts, to offer for sale a portion of his negative collection. Eugène Atget: Unknown Paris.
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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.. Web. Print.Fabrikant, Geraldine. In Barberie, Peter.