Eugene Atget Appreciation

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With the amount of fast food grease most Americans eat every years, the end result is either going to be spontaneous combustion or never decaying due to all the additives. I don't know which is worse - driving along the freeway next to some fast food franchises, or smelling the same thing coming out of the tailpipe of a Grease-mobile running on recycled french fry oil.
 

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That's kind of neat; it means that if you don't spontaneously self-combust, you can be pretty sure your carnal remains will be around forever. Egyptians would have been jealous!
 

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Eugene Atget Appreciation​

This thread brings back memories of my early days in photography. It having to do with studies of photographers at that time.
E,Atget struck me exceptionally - first reference to him and his view - I guess I was doing etchings and photography at the same time -- the artistic ambiance of his work stuck me like lighting!
he was a poet of light!!!
 
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"A poet of light" - what a beautiful description.
 

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cliveh,
E.Atget work shows a view of art, in the photos. This which Man Ray saw also and called Atget a surrealist.
 
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But if it wasn't for Berenice Abbott, probably no one would of ever heard of him.
 

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__ "But if it wasn't for Berenice Abbott, probably no one would of ever heard of him."

Well, yes &&& no - E.Atget was known in Paris in his day [1920's] but not to much further.{?} B.Abbott opened him to the art photo-world in the States--NY ....
But he was all ready an enigmatic figure, that is how Berenice Abbott got word of it from Man Ray --- in Paris was already known for his work on the city urban photos.

I remember reading a book or two where he was depicted with a type of wheel barrel to carry his camera and plates... this was printed 1938- the book was about 35 years old when I read it . [1972]

Note : Berenice Abbott was a helper in the studio of ManRay in Paris around 1925-7.
 
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