Eugene Atget
Eugene Atget was a French photographer which took photographs of his city Paris to show the real depth of Paris and show what it through a Parisians eye. Eugene Atget took pictures which were seen as documents of a different range of reality. He would sometimes structure a photograph around a small or a less noticeable object. There would be stories behind his photographs for example, he took a picture of a place that was going to be demolished and at the back of the picture he wrote in french 'it is going to disappear' which he doesn't usually do. He would usually take pictures of streets early in the morning when they would be relatively empty for example, Quai d'Anjou. Some of his photographs were based upon one or more of the six rules of photography.
Berenice Abbott
Abbott spent an influential decade in Paris in the 1920's but other than that she spent most of her productive life in photography in New York City. Her five decades of accomplishments behind the camera range from portraiture to modernist experimentation to documentation to scientific interpretation. Abbott's photographs consistently reflect her innate appreciation for the profound documentary capacity of rigorously conceived images to impart information in an aesthetically engaging way. Within four major thematic categories:
However, by the mid-1930s the Depression had forced the federal government to include artists and related workers among the recipients of unemployment relief. Abbott successfully applied to the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration to carry out Changing New York and in the autumn of 1935 began the program that occupied her for the next three years.
- Portraits (1920s-1930s)
- New York City (1930s-1940s)
- Science (1940-1950s)
- American Scenes (1930s-1960s)
However, by the mid-1930s the Depression had forced the federal government to include artists and related workers among the recipients of unemployment relief. Abbott successfully applied to the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration to carry out Changing New York and in the autumn of 1935 began the program that occupied her for the next three years.