Atget

Eugene Atget (1857 - 1927) was a french photographer who was noticed by his photographs. Born outside the french city of Bordeaux. Eugene Atget was orphaned at seven and raised by his uncle.
He settled in Paris in the 1890's. Atget saw photography as a source of income, selling his photographs to artists.

In the mid 1890's Atget brought his first camera and began to photograph more than 10,000 images of people and sights of the french capital. He used a simple 18 x 24cm view camera, it had a rising front where many of the corners of his photograph's have been cut off because the lens did not give a full coverage. Atget had no wide angle lens. The focal length of his camera must of been eleven and twelve inches. He used glass plates and made use of simple coefficient table with mathematical calculations. Atget's photographs are proof that photography is more than a machine. His purpose and vision was powerful of long years of hard work. For him the camera was a instrument for expressing his awareness of life.

I have chosen this particular photograph from Atget's collection. The photograph itself is produced in a attractive way where Atget has represented people in a market and the use view.
This shows Atget's use of mind using the camera shot, view of point and how he uses creative.