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Written by Patrick Jan Van Hove
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
Atget's Paris
Eugène Atget is one of the legends of LF. For thirty years at the beggining of the 20th century, he roamed the streets of Paris, carrying an 18x24cm wetplate camera around at recording the city.
His images are sometimes technically imperfect, showing for example some vigneting from too much movement, but they are an impressive catalog of what Atget saw as the remains of a dissapearing way of life.
It is interesting to know that he himself didn't see his work as art. He was making a living selling his images for historical societies and museums. He died virtually unknown, leaving behind a huge body of work of thousands of glass plates.
This book, part of the Taschen Icons series, provides an affordable introduction to Atget's work, and an intersting first step in the universe of this amazing photographer.
Buy it From : Amazon.com
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 November 2005 )
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