Eugene Atget
PersonalAtget was a French documentary photographer. He was born on 12 February 1857. Most of his work was published by Berenice Abbott after his death on 4 August 1927
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Legacy
He will be remembered as an urbanist historian, a genuine romanticist, a lover of Paris, a Balzac of the camera, from whose work we can weave a large tapestry of French civilization.
— Berenice Abbott |
Style of Work
Due to the long exposures used by Atget, many of his images have wispy drawn out lighting. Due to the repositioning of his lense, his work characteristically vignette.
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