After his fiftieth birthday Eugene Atget limited his diet to milk, bread, and bits of sugar; he honed in on his hygiene and lived to perfect his art. Peculiar in his habits and devoted to the development of photography, Atget struggled unnoticed for most of his life. It wasn't until his death that hi
Kertesz spent his first several professional years shooting idyllic pictures of his native Hungary, including strangely gentle images of World War I combat troops, and creating avant-garde nude distortion studies with his small-format 35mm Leica camera. His best-known work comes from his years in