Great Black and White Photographers Part Two

Eugène Atget was a French Photographer and documented architecture and street scenes in Paris. He was born on February 12, 1857 and died on august 4, 1927. Atget was raised by his grandparents after his parents died around 1862. Later in life, he persued acting and became an actor with a traveling group and traveled around paris. Because of a vocal infection, Atget quit acting and tried to be a painter in the provinces but he failed. He then moved back to paris and became a professional photographer. Atget had almost no published work until he died and was published in Atget, Photographe de Paris in 1930. Most of his work were documentations of paris before it became modernized. Through his photos he showed the beauty and simplicity of paris.