Eugene Atget

Atget was born in France at 1856. He lost his parents when he was very young, so he was raised by his uncle. After his education was finished, he started to do several jobs such as fisherman and actor. However, he did not have much of success from those jobs; therefore, he started to do art designs. Then he began to take photos, since he was settled in Paris. For 30 years, he had taken photos for artists who wanted to paint landscape or the towns in Paris. At the time period when the century was about to change to 20th century, he started to take photo of workers and people in Paris. He became a “documentary photographer”. He had such an amazing skill to use the shutter speed. Nowadays, his most of the work is in the museum in New York.