I suspect you are taking this too personally. I said "If...", and it wasn't meant to be judgemental. But FWIW, I have rowed, sailed and canoed all my life. And I got halfway through building a clinker sailing dinghy but had to give it up for family reasons. None of which has anything to do with Atget.I've owned five boats and sailed extensively. And you?
I suspect you are taking this too personally. I said "If...", and it wasn't meant to be judgemental. But FWIW, I have rowed, sailed and canoed all my life. And I got halfway through building a clinker sailing dinghy but had to give it up for family reasons. None of which has anything to do with Atget.
Does anyone know the purpose of those three dark pipes+boxes hanging on the wall on the left?
10,000 negatives. It's amazing what can be accomplished.
Perhaps light-tight air vents.
Does anyone know the purpose of those three dark pipes+boxes hanging on the wall on the left?
Nope, it says "Dunkelkammerlaterne". "Laterne" = 'lantern.' So they're in fact safe lights. @snusmumriken was right, although it may just have been a simple candle in there instead of an oil burner.Name is "Dunkelkammeristerne"
If Atget's boat had come from Ikea, it would have sunken long before he got a chance to photograph it, with all the paper-thin veneer soaked off, and the cheap particle board core dissolved into damp sawdust down in the muck. Thank goodness, there were no Ikea stores back then.
Atget was a master in how he used trees to complement his compositions. The Post 283 example is indeed unusual. But I "got it" long ago. It is his own intuitive venture into Constructivism, for lack of a better term. Carleton Watkins and Sheeler were the photographic masters of that (only certain Watkins ULF prints clearly exhibit it, taken well before there was a school of painters doing it; Sheeler both photographed and painted). It's a daring division of space right in front of the rest of the picture, so can be intimidating in that respect; a bold experiment, at least, but certainly not the manner Atget typically handled trees.
Watkins' examples were truly prescient of modern art; but this one example of the same kind of compositional strategy with Atget might or might not have been inspired by what contemporary painters were already doing. More recently, Friedlander attempted those kinds of arboreal overlays, but in a half-baked way in my opinion - just too conspicuously forced and artsty.
It's surprisingly difficult to compose well in that manner. I was out yesterday with the 4x5 and a long lens working with a very intricate tree overlaid upon another kind of tree, but that was all at a distance and essentially two-dimensional, and in color as well - whole different ballgame.
Well, frankly, it's hard to beat an interesting tree as a photographic subject. It's probably only behind women and mountains. (actually, it's probably ahead of mountains and cars but now behind lunch...)
Nope, it says "Dunkelkammerlaterne".
Good thing your eyes are better than mine.
Some may interpret this statement to mean, if you take 10,000 images, that some will be good. But in fact, you have hit the nail on the head here, in so far as if you do something again and again, infinitum, you acquire a skill that takes you into a realm that can’t be taught and that’s where you produce the magic.
Me too. It’s humbling.Actually I was thinking about his modest workplace and how much he accomplished in a very basic way.
I’ve just found something similar for sale on eBay UK, here. Specifically says oil lamp.
It's amazing he didn't burn his house down with those contraptions.
I like seeing workspaces.
It's amazing he didn't burn his house down with those contraptions.
I thought it was pretty interesting. And not exactly what one would imagine. I also like the pictures on the wall and wish I could see them more clearly.
Those things are perfectly safe, if used properly. 100 years ago, people generally were more competent about such things than they are now - and more aware of the danger of mishandling something like that.
human combustion.
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