Famous French photographer By the Collège Vauban – Maubeuge – France

Many, many French photographers

Atget

Personal Information  Jean Eugène Auguste Atget was born on the 12th of February 1857, in France. He was sick so he left drama to become a photographer.  He was a professional photographer.  He died on the 4th August 1927 in Paris.

Type of camera  His type of camera was a view camera 18x24.  This camera was not pratical because it wasn't easily transportable and it took a long time to take a picture.

Colors of the pictures  Jean Eugène August Atget took pictures in black and white because in his period,there weren't colors.

The black chamber  He used glass negatives and developped them on album papers

Themes of his pictures  He decided to take pictures of the Paris that was going to desappear due to all the urban transformations and the development of department stores.

Landscapes

● He took also pictures of old jobs that were desappearing.

Brassaï

 Brassaï was a photographer, designer, writer, sculptor and painter. His real name was Gyula Halàsz.He was French but of Hungrian origin  He took picture in black and white of place, of people, nature.  He was born in 1899, on September the 9th, at Brasov. He died in 1984, on the 8 of July in Nice. During his life, he lived in Paris.

 He began to photograph in In 1932, his first pictures are 62 pictures of Paris by night. He took picture in black and white of places, people and nature.

 He said: « I like the pictures where the topic is simple and I like natural pictures, I always remove the formal composition from all my pictures ».

 He photographed with this camera and with a tripod

Gaspar-Félix Tournachon or NADAR  His dates : ● He was born on the 6th April 1820 in Paris and he died on the 21th March 1910 in Paris.  His life : ● He was the first French photographer.

Nadar’ s camera IN THE 19TH CENTURY

He was the first to take pictures from the air.

He experimented the first flashes.

● His pictures were in black and white.

● There were no special effect.

● He took persons for his photos. ● In the background, there was nothing.

 RONIS WILLY

● Willy Ronis, was born on August 14th 1910 in Paris and died on September 11, 2009 Paris. He was 99 years old. He was a French nationnality.

● He was a humanist photographer. He took pictures of human beings in their environement

He look at people with affection and respect

Arthur–Bertrand

 Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born on march 13 th 1946 in Paris and he's 67 years old.

 He is a French professional photographer. He created his own photography business which is called « l'agence altitude »

 He became a reporter for the Figaro Magazine in 1983 thanks to his book of lion photo.

 On july the 1 st 2005, he created the fondation « Good Planet » which aims at raising awareness and educating the public to the protection of humanity.

 Most often, his picture are pictures of landscapes taken from the sky

 He takes also his pictures from a balloon because he mustn’t moove and he has a special look on human activities

He takes pictures of landscapes where the human beings are very small.

One of his most famous picture

He takes pictures of animals which looks like sculptures.

One of his pictures of lions