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Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

Today’s art history post features photography history: “Christmas Morning,” 1933, photo by James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), hand painted gelatin silver print. #photography #darkroomphotography #studiophotography #PhotographyHistory #Christmas #blackphotographer #blackphotographers #blackhistory

From Thelma Golden, Aperture Magazine, Summer, 2016: “VanDerZee pictured families, couples, social clubs, and church groups in moments of communal joy and beauty. His subjects were acutely aware of the brutal segregation and economic inequality of the world of that era, yet stood in proud opposition to it-providing a visual framework for imagining a different future. Eighty-three years later, Christmas Morning continues to resonate.

The photographs of VanDerZee and his contemporaries comprise a compelling visual document of black pride and self-determination at a particular moment in history, yet in the present moment they remain a potent symbol of the transformative power of photographic representation.”