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Gratis gokken zonder storting. Apr 21 2017 explore sears0218s board atget on pinterest. When it comes to photos in paris there is no greater treat. Eugene atget was a french photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of paris.

Atget and his documents however were sufficiently in demand. By the early 20s atget achieved financial independence by selling thousands of his negatives to various institutions. Atget produced architectural details views of historic paris landscapes and botanical images for use by painters and illustrators.

His images reduced paris to its architectural essence. Paris changing features seventy four pairs of images beautifully reproduced in duotone. He rarely photographed large buildings or famous landmarks and he avoided such modern monuments as the eiffel tower and the arc de triomphe.

Atget began shooting paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His art gained in power as he grew older. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters architects and stage designers.

So if youre in town this show is a must. Despite being a product of the 19th century he was greatly admired by the avant garde photographers of the 1920s. See more ideas about eugene atget old paris eugene.

Despite being a product of the 19th century he was greatly admired by the avant garde photographers of the 1920s. This exhibition is the perfect introduction. Mauricio lima has followed in atgets footsteps shooting images of the same scenes his famous predecessor captured.

In thousands of pictures atget shot an empty city getting up early each morning and lugging his primitive equipment throughout the streets. His paris was a private city with no palaces and few churches. Christopher rauschenberg spent a year in the late 90s revisiting and rephotographing many of atgets same locations.

But that allowed me multiple trips to the musee carnavalet which is showing work by eugene atget. In 1906 the bibliotheque historique de la ville de paris a library dedicated to the citys history commissioned atget to photograph the city. His images reduced paris to its architectural essence.

Revisiting eugene atgets paris. In thousands of pictures atget shot an empty city getting up early each morning and lugging his primitive equipment throughout the streets. John szarkowski observed that much of atgets.