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With the marvelous lens of dream and surprise, Atget "saw" (that is to say, photographed) practically everything about him, in and outside of Paris, with the vision of a poet. --Berenice Abbott... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0893817503
ISBN13:9780893817503
Release Date:June 2005
Publisher:Aperture
Length:96 Pages
Weight:1.16 lbs.
Dimensions:8.5" x 0.5" x 8.5"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
As a up and coming architecture photograph I found this invaluable and well arranged.
A must have for the serious street photographer
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
If you like Diana Arbus and Gary Winogrand, you must get this to see where there roots are. Model was Arbus's teacher and you can see where she found the starting point for her street work.
A superbly presented and invaluable contribution
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Eugene Atget (1857-1927) spent almost thirty years photographing details of often inconspicuous Parisian buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, and public sculptures. In Focus: Eugene Atget brings together more than 50 of the J. Paul Getty Museum's 295 photographs by Atget, with commentary on each image by associate curator of photographs at the Getty Museum, Gordon Baldwin. Atget's photograph and Baldwin's commentary are enhanced with a chronological overview of Atget's life and an edited transcript of a colloquium on his career. In Focus: Eugene Atget is a superbly presented and invaluable contribution to the history of photography.
19TH CENTURY PARIS PASSIONATELY DOCUMENTED FOR POSTERITY
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Eugene Atget (1857-1927) is the undisputed photo-documentarian of 19th century Paris. With studious attention to detail, Atget seemingly photographed every intimate corner of his much-loved city. Leaving the well-known monuments and boulevards to others, Atget instead concentrated on the atmospheric fabric of everyday Paris, photographing shops and window displays, cobbled streets, doorways, stairways, vehicles, churches, amusement parks, street-peddlers and prostitutes. Unraveling the mystery of Eugène Atget's life and work is easier said than done. Now considered to be one of history's most important photographers, Atget was relatively unknown during his lifetime. Posthumously famous for his photographs, Atget in fact made only a humble living selling his prints to architects, artists, and institutions.Atget wrote in 1920, "I may say that I have in my possession all of Old Paris." His systematic method of photographing Paris street by street is spellbinding, and the result is a detailed catalogue of 19th century Paris. The result of Eugène Atget's life's work is gathered here in a heartbreakingly beautiful book for lovers of Paris, architecture, and photography.
breathtaking views of Paris in the past
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I received this book as a gift because not only do I collect photography books but I also frequently go to Paris because I love the city. This book is full of full page photos of Paris in the past and has a dreamy quality of the day to day events and sites of Paris and the surrounding areas. It's a great collectible book for photography fans and Paris lovers.
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