Artist Research

Eugene Atget


Atget was a French photographer who practised documentary photography on the streets around Paris. Sadly his work was only widely recognised after his death in 1927, the prime of his career being around 1890-1920 where he captured some beautiful photographs of the people and sights of the french capital. Eugene Atget had very basic equipment and had to find ways of solving this through logical paths and thought processes. Below are a selection of his photographs which really showed out to me.

I feel that the black and white really adds something to these photographs, Im not sure if it is the fact that you can read into them more or the fact that they look old, showing the change of Paris which Atget wanted to show. I think at this point in my research that I would like my final photographs to be in monochrome because as mentioned above, it really adds things to the picture which viewers are able to take in their own way.




Daniel Meadows


Meadows was a photographer who caught my eye whilst looking through documentary photographers. A very interesting way of photographing, Meadows decided to travel the UK in an old converted double decker bus, with the top converted into a living space and the botom into a darkroom. I imagine this gave  him an abundance of time to capture those crucial photographs. Below is a photograph of his bus. 


http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2011/nov/09/photographer-daniel-meadows-video?fb=native

The below images show some of my favourite work by Daniel Meadows.

Most of meadows photographs include people and from watching a short film about his work on his website, he took photographs of just under 1000 people in one year. I am really interested with his photographs because they have meaning and Meadows invested his whole life and a lot of time into capturing these images.




Brassai


I was told to look Brassai by a lecturer and in doing so have found an interesting artist who really appeals to me. 

I think the thing that I like about his photographs is that most of them make you ask yourself a question and you are racking your brain to think why the certain thing in the photograph is happening. This, I am sure, can be taken differently for some people because most people will have their own views on each subject in the photograph. I also like the fact that he chooses well when to press the trigger and take the picture because he has captured some story telling images, as shown above.