Atget

Atget

Author: John Szarkowski

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0870705784

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This volume presents the essence of the work of the great French photographer Eugène Atget through one hundred carefully selected photographs. Atget devoted more than thirty years of his life to the task of documenting the city of Paris and the surrounding countryside, and in the process created an oeuvre that brilliantly explains the great richness, complexity, and authentic character of his native culture. John Szarkowski, an acknowledged master of the art of looking at photographs, explores the unique sensibilities that made Atget one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and a vital influence on the development of modern and contemporary photography. The eloquent introductory text and commentaries on Atget’s photographs form an extended essay on the remarkable visual intelligence displayed in these subtle, sometimes enigmatic pictures.


Books on Books 1

Books on Books 1

Author: Eugène Atget

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Text by David Campany, Pierre Mac Orlan, Jeffrey Ladd.


Paris Changing

Paris Changing

Author: Christopher Rauschenberg

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2007-10-04

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781568986807

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Between 1888 and 1927 Eugne Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environs, capturing in thousands of photographs the city's parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. His images preserved the vanishing architecture of the ancien rgime as Paris grew into a modern capital and established Atget as one of the twentieth century's greatest and most revered photographers. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the late '90s revisiting and rephotographing many of Atget's same locations. Paris Changing features seventy-four pairs of images beautifully reproduced in duotone. By meticulously replicating the emotional as well as aesthetic qualities of Atget's images, Rauschenberg vividly captures both the changes the city has undergone and its enduring beauty. His work is both an homage to his predecessor and an artistic study of Paris in its own right. Each site is indicated on a map of the city, inviting readers to follow in the steps of Atget and Rauschenberg themselves. Essays by Clark Worswick and Alison Nordstrom give insight into Atget's life and situate Rauschenberg's work in the context of other rephotography projects. The book concludes with an epilogue by Rosamond Bernier as well as a portfolioof other images of contemporary Paris by Rauschenberg. If a trip to the city of lights is not in your immediate future, this luscious portrait of Paris then and now is definitely the next best thing.


Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget

Author: Eugène Atget

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780892366019

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Publisher Fact Sheet Featuring details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, & public sculptures in his beloved Paris. Includes commentary on each image.


Atget, the Pioneer

Atget, the Pioneer

Author: Jean-Claude Lemagny

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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Published to accompany the exhibitions in Paris, June 23-September 17 2000, and New York October 7 2000 to January 21 2001. Curated by Jean-Claude Lemagny.


Atget's Seven Albums

Atget's Seven Albums

Author: Molly Nesbit

Publisher:

Published: 1994-08-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780300059168

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Between 1909 and 1915 Eugène Atget produced seven albums filled with photographs of Paris at the height of its belle époque. This book presents Atget's albums in full for the first time, edited with the sequencing and repetition that the great photographer intended. In addition, Atget's pictures are analyzed in an altogether new way; as commercial picture documents produced by a photographer for the artists, archivists, antiquarians, designers, and builders who were his clients. Atget's Seven Albums is thus many books-a critical edition, a fresh view of Atget's work, a new kind of history of photography, and a social history of art and of Paris in the early twentieth century.


Atget

Atget

Author: Benjamin Weiss

Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780878468447

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Photographer Eug�ne Atget is best known as a chronicler of a romantic, if disappearing, Paris around the turn of the 20th century. This book presents a series of postcards depicting Paris's petits m�tiers, or little trades, exploring another side to Atget's oeuvre. More or less Atget's only published works during his lifetime, the postcards capture the ephemeral nature of life in the city and are part of a long tradition of depicting skilled tradespeople plying their wares. In them, Atget presents the market stands, the odd jobs, the cobbled together shops, and the informal entertainment that gave Paris its piquancy and eternally renewing liveliness.