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Born in the French town of Libourne , he was orphaned at four years old and was raised by his uncle. In the 1870s after finishing his education, Atget briefly became a sailor and cabin boy on liners in the Transatlantic. After his tour of duty, Atget became an actor, more specifically, a bit player, for a second-rate repertory company, but without much success. He finally settled in Paris as a painter-turned-photographer in the 1890s. Despite Atget's limited background in the visual arts, he saw photography as a good 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. In 1898, Atget bought his first camera and began to photograph more than 10,000 images of the people and sights of the French capital.
Atget photographed Paris with a large-format wooden bellows camera with a rapid rectilinear lens. The images were developed on 18x24cm glass plates. Besides supplying fellow artists, architects, publishers, and interior decorators with his photographs of a dream-like Paris, he was also commissioned by city bureaus and the Carnavalet Museum to preserve and record landmarks in France's capitol city.
Distinguishing characteristics of Atget's photography include simple composition and subject matter, due to Atget's habit of taking pictures in the morning when the streets were relatively empty.
Atget's photographs attracted the attention of well-known painters such as Man Ray, Andre Derain, Henri Matisse, and Picasso in the 1920's1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 Britain announces it will build 100,000 homes for war veterans. January 10 Leagu. Fellow photographer Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott ( July_17, 1898 December_9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of the streetlife and architecture of New York City during the 1930s. She was born in Springfield, Ohio and began taking photogra is given much credit for the recognition which Atget's photographs received after his death in 1927. One year before his death, Abbott, then an assistant to Man Ray, met with Atget and conserved many of his negatives. When Atget passed away, Abbott raised enough money to acquire 1,500 of his negatives and 8,000 prints. She spent the next forty years promoting his work in America, elevating it to be recognized as art, above its original reputation as simply photographic documents. In 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the, Eugene Atget's work was collected by the Museum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The museum is often considered a rival to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. MoMA first opened to the public on November 7, 1929. Considered by many to have one o in New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York,. Berenice Abbott has commented regarding Atget: "He was an urbanist historianHistory is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth". When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. The term histor, a BalzacHonore de Balzac ( May 20, 1799 August 18, 1850), was a French novelist. He was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France in the rue de l'Armee Italienne. In 1849, when his health had broken down, he travelled to Poland to visit Eveline Hanska, a rich Polish of the camera, from whose work we can weave a large tapestry of French civilization."
In 1899, he moved to Montparnasse where he lived earning a meager income until his death in 1927.
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