Research artist--- Eugene Atget

 Eugene Atget was a French photographer born in Bordeaux.Early in life he became a sailor, then cabin boy and later an actor.none of these jobs made him happy and he could not continue with these jobs.He married a French actress and they both were associated with French dramatists.He became interested in photography and he could make a living out of that. He bought himself a camera, a  large wooden camera with bellows.he shot more than 10000 shots of people and various sights in Paris.His main interest was in buildings and nature.He held many exhibitions and galleries through out Europe.He gave lot of importance to the sharpness of the images he took which he could achieve using the large format camera using a tripod.It looks all landscape photographers use tripod routinely for all the images.

 I like this image which shows an alley between buildings and a canal.There are rows of trees besides the canal and a staircase to go down to the canal.This one image gives so many information.

This second image is of a lake.The water is still and so the reflection of trees is clear.The photographer must have taken this image early in the morning when no people around and must have waited for a long time for the right moment when the water is still.