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Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget (1857-1927) was a prominent French Pictorial photographer from the 18th to the 19th centuries. Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget was born 12 February 1857 in Libourne. His father, carriage builder Jean-Eugène Atget, died in 1862, and his mother, Clara-Adeline Atget née Hourlier died shortly after. He was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Bordeaux and after finishing secondary education joined the merchant navy. Atget moved to Paris in 1878. He failed the entrance exam for acting class but was admitted when he had a second try. Because he was drafted for military service he could attend class only part-time, and he was expelled from drama school. He gave up acting because of an infection of his vocal cords in 1887, moved to the provinces and took up painting without success. His first photographs, of Amiens and Beauvais, date from 1888. In 1890, Atget moved back to Paris and became a professional photographer, supplying documents for artists: studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Starting in 1898, institutions such as the Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris bought his photographs. The latter commissioned him ca. 1906 to systematically photograph old buildings in Paris. In 1899 he moved to Montparnasse. While being a photographer Atget still also called himself an actor, giving lectures and readings. During World War I Eugène Atget temporarily stored his archives in his basement for safekeeping and almost completely gave up photography. Valentine's son Léon was killed at the front. Berenice Abbott, while working with Man Ray, visited Atget in 1925, bought some of his photographs, and tried to interest other artists in his work. She continued to promote Atget through various articles, exhibitions and books, and sold her Atget collection to the Museum of Modern Art in 1968. In 1926, Valentine died, and Man Ray published several of Atget's photographs in his La Révolution surréaliste. Abbott took Atget's portrait in 1927. Eugène Atget died 4 August 1927 in Paris.

Some of his works

  Rags collector, 1899

Au Tambour, 1908

Hameau de la reine, Versailles, 1926

Saint-Cloud, 1924

Prostitute waiting in front of her door, 1921

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Picturalism is the name of an international style and aesthetic movement dominating the photo in the early 19th and early 20th centuries. There is a brief description of a photo simply as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply making a recording. Typically, a pictorial photo is printed and visible in one or more colors from black-and-white (dark brown to warm brown), where it is not sharp (some are more than others). Fine-art photography is photography created in accordance with the vision of the artist as photographer. Fine art photography stands in contrast to representational photography, such as photojournalism, which provides a documentary visual account of specific subjects and events, literally re-presenting objective reality rather than the subjective intent of the photographer; and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to advertise products or services. Today, photography is seen as a valid art form as others, and there are many museums and galleries exhibiting photography work. But at a time when photography was invented for the first time and photographers were forced to be artists, it was not so easy at the beginning. That's it for today :)

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Photography

What is photography? Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. I think photography is actually an art form that we can make very profound meanings. What is photography? the best answer we can give for the question; is the transformation of visual components into visual arts with specific techniques through the use of their own infrastructural support.

In more technical terms Photography is used to create an image by recording a light on a sensitive surface using a camera. Considering the aesthetic aspect, it is regarded as an art. In order to describe with digital age, an electronic image sensor is the result of photographing, loading each pixel, and electronically processing this photograph. Think about old times and today's time. Camera Obscura's invention has revealed a new era of a new icad. Obscura is basically a pinhole camera, the first camera used in history. Most of the painters we have known since the 15th century used the camera obscura to make their drawings more realistic. And with that invention, we humans are now under our thumb with our technology today. If you think you can stop the time with one touch. Yes now we can do it. For me, photography is the invention of stopping time. When we take a photo, we actually freeze the time. This is awesome.