Eugene Atget was a French commercial photographer who specialized in photographing the architecture and associated arts of Paris and its surroundings at the turn of the 20th century. In the late 1880’s, when Atget was in his early 30’s, he became interested in photography. The earliest known photographs by him seem to be made in the north of France. These works portray rural scenes, plants, and farming technology and they were presumably made as studies for painters and illustrators. It was his fortitude to document the entire architectural landscape and street views of Paris prior to its transformation to modernism. By the early 1890’s, Atget was working in Paris, but it was not until later into that decade that Atget changed the focus of his photographic business to concentrate on the city of Paris—a subject that proved of limitless interest, and one that continued to enrich his work for the remaining 30 years of his life.
I did my urban landscapes photoshoot based off Eugene Atget and photographed cobbles lanes around Jersey.
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I like the final outcome of my images as I feel they represent Eugene Atget photos well. I created an ‘old’ look to my images by putting my images into black and white and then adjusting the hue/saturation according to how I wanted the final outcome of the images to look. I am really happy with the outcome of the edited images as I feel they relate well to what I was trying to represent. My images captured cobbled lanes throughout Jersey and old buildings.