Eugène Atget : unknown Paris /
In the twentieth century, two photographers. Berenice Abbott and Eugene Atget, were able to truly capture the spirit of the cities in which they lived. Thanks to the efforts of Abbott -- who drew inspiration from Atget and went on to replicate his work in her native New York -- Atget's negative...
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| Language: | English French |
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New Press,
2003
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2003 |
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| Summary: | In the twentieth century, two photographers. Berenice Abbott and Eugene Atget, were able to truly capture the spirit of the cities in which they lived. Thanks to the efforts of Abbott -- who drew inspiration from Atget and went on to replicate his work in her native New York -- Atget's negatives were salvaged, and his reputation preserved for posterity. Her famous images of New York City comprise Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, published by The New Press. Now, this companion volume presents a wealth of previously unpublished material by Eugene Atget himself "During the first quarter of the twentieth century the short stocky figure of photographer Eugene Atget was a familiar sight in Paris. From 1898 until his death in 1927, Atget took approximately five thousand negatives in the city, systematically documenting its historic core; its building and monuments, its ancient streets and civic spaces, its public parks and gardens. Atget chose not to represent a particular site by a single, definitive photograph; instead he consistently produced sequences of interrelated images to create a cumulative portrait of each setting." "Featuring 240 of Atget's photographs - only a few of which have previously been published - this book examines Atget's approach to photography by studying these sequences; his pictures of an individual building, a street an intersection, the quays along the river Seine, and a neighborhood. Assembling these images into coherent groups, Unknown Paris displays the direct and integral relationship between the photographer's working method and his subject matter in turn revealing the distinctive character of old Paris itself."--BOOK JACKET During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the short, stocky figure of photographer Eugene Atget was a familiar sight in Paris. From 1898 until his death in 1927, Atget took approximately five thousand negatives in the city, systematically documenting its historic core: its buildings and monuments, its ancient streets and civic spaces, its public parks and gardens. Atget chose not to represent a particular site by a single, definitive photograph: instead he consistently produced sequences of interrelated images to create a cumulative portrait of each setting Featuring 240 of Atget's photographs -- only a few of which have previously been published -- this book examines Atget's approach to photography by studying these sequences: his pictures of an individual building, a street, an intersection, the quays along the river Seine, and a neighborhood. Assembling these images into coherent groups. Unknown Paris displays the direct and integral relationship between the photographer's working method and his subject matter, in turn revealing the distinctive character of old Paris itself |
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| Item Description: | English language version of Eugène Atget : itinéraires parisiens Originally published in France as Eugène Atget: itinéraires parisiens by Editions de musées de la Ville de Paris/Editions du patrimoine 1999 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 199 p. : ill. ; 28 cm 199 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm 199 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197) and index |
| ISBN: | 1565848543 (pbk.) 1565848543 1565848683 (hc.) 1565848683 9781565848542 (pbk.) 9781565848689 (hc.) |