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Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget began his photography career after he had served his time in the Sixty-third Infantry Division in France, and dropped out of school where he studied drama. After trying to make a career in painting, Atget decided he would become a photographer of art. His camera of choice was a 18x24 cm view camera, placed on a tripod. The plates used in the camera were gelatin-silver negative plates that were 1.5mm thick. The pictures were either oriented vertically or horizontally, and adjusted with a tilt-shift, so a soft vignetting is present on all his pictures. 

Atget photographed Paris because to him it was so beautiful and picturesque. His images were so tasteful for the time, his images were bought by libraries, historical societies, and even artists and sculptors. They looked at his work with admiration. Atget with a camera, was creating the art he wanted to make that he might not have been able to as a painter himself. 

Atget would often get up before dawn to take pictures; carrying almost forty pounds of equipment through the streets of Paris and even into the countryside. The photographer of art had transitioned into a street photographer, capturing the architecture and streets of old Paris. It is argued that Atget was just a depressed painter/artist who was ashamed of the medium he was using; that the resulting pictures he took were mistakes, or he didn’t see what he was doing. In his own way, “not only did Atget document a city, he also captured its essence” (Oden). 













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