Atget - Jean Eugène August Atget

Japanese: アッジェ - あっじぇ(英語表記)Jean Eugène August Atget
Atget - Jean Eugène August Atget

French photographer. Born in Libourne, Gironde. He left his hometown for Paris as a boy and worked as a sailor and actor, but in the 1890s he began his career selling photographs to painters, writers, and stage designers as reference material. His buyers included painters such as Braque and Utrillo. However, Atget himself had almost no contact with the photography world of the time, and only took photos of Parisian streets for reference material, so he was completely unknown as a photographer. His name finally became known when Man Ray introduced him in a Surrealist journal the year before his death. Today, his mysterious style is popular with a wide range of people.

[Osamu Hiraki]

"Eugène Atget Photo Collection: Atget in Paris" (1979, Asahi Shimbun)

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Japanese:

フランスの写真家。ジロンド県リーブルヌに生まれる。少年時代に郷里を離れパリに出て、船乗りや役者などの職業を遍歴するが、1890年代に画家や文学者、舞台美術家などのために資料として写真を売る写真師を始めた。写真の買い手にはブラックやユトリロらの画家も含まれていたという。しかし、アッジェ自身は当時の写真界とはほとんど交渉がなく、ひたすら資料のためにパリの街角を撮っていたので、写真家としてはまったく無名であった。死の前年に、マン・レイによりシュルレアリスムの機関誌に紹介され、ようやくその名が知られるようになった。今日では不思議な気配の漂う彼の作風が、幅広い層の人気を集めている。

[平木 収]

『ウージェーヌ・アッジェ写真集『パリのアッジェ』(1979・朝日新聞社)』

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