Eugene Atget - Unknown Paris - Softcover

Harris, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565848543 ISBN 13: 9781565848542

Verlag: The New Press, 2003

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Book by Harris David

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Críticas:

Atget reached the pole of utmost mastery; but with the bitter modesty of a great craftsman who always lives in the shadows, he neglected to plant his flag there. Therefore many are able to flatter themselves that they have discovered the pole, even though Atget was there before them.

"An urbanist historian, a genuine romanticist, a lover of Paris, a Balzac of the camera, from whose work we can weave a large tapestry of French civilization." -- Berenice Abbott

"The earliest expression of true photographic art." --Ansel Adams

"Without Atget, nobody could really see Paris." --Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

Reseña del editor:

For thirty years, Eugène Atget photographed the historic core of Paris, its buildings and monuments, its ancient streets and civic spaces, its public parks and gardens. With the exception of his earliest photographs, he chose not to represent a particular site by a single, definitive photograph but produced sequences of interrelated images that create a cumulative portrait.

A collection of case studies of archetypal urban settings, this book examines Atget’s approach to photography. It features 240 of his photographs—nearly all of which have never been published—assembled to display the integral relationship between the photographer’s working method and his subject matter, revealing the character of Le Vieux Paris itself.

A natural companion to the New Press’s Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, Eugène Atget is the product of an exhibit mounted in response to Abbott’s work and reflective of the two photographers’ shared vision.

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• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1565848543
• ISBN 13: 9781565848542
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208