Atget

Author : John Szarkowski
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 0870705784
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atget written by John Szarkowski and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2003 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Eugène Atget
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books on Books 1 written by Eugène Atget and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by David Campany, Pierre Mac Orlan, Jeffrey Ladd.

Author : Eugène Atget
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atget's Gardens written by Eugène Atget and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerry Badger
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Great Innovators of Photography written by Gerry Badger and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene Atget is today seen as the first 'modern' photographer. He was a compulsive documenter of all things Parisian. Day after day, for over 30 years, he systematically photographed Parisian street scenes, street trades (from rag-pickers to prostitutes) and the grand parks of Saint-Cloud and Versailles. He himself described his work as simple 'documents for artists' but since his death in 1927, his work has been re-evaluated and he is now seen as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century, the creator of a unique monument to a Paris that no longer exists and a particular era of French culture.

Author : Christopher Rauschenberg
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568986807
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paris Changing written by Christopher Rauschenberg and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Eugène Atget
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892366019
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eugène Atget written by Eugène Atget and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene Atget (1857-1927) spent nearly thirty years photographing details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, and public sculptures in his beloved Paris. Yet before his death, he was practically unknown outside of that city. His genius was first recognized about 1924 by two young Americans living and working in Paris, Man Ray and his studio assistant, Berenice Abbott, who recognized the elements of contradiction, ambivalence, and ambiguity in Atget's images of Parisian architecture, streets, and parks. Presented in this volume are more than fifty of the Getty Museum's two hundred ninety-five pictures by Atget, with commentary on each image by Gordon Baldwin, associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. In Focus: Eugene Atget also contains a chronological overview of his life and an edited transcript of a colloquium on his career, with participants Baldwin; David Featherstone, independent editor and curator; photographer Robbert Flick, professor of art at the University of Southern California; independent scholar David Harris; Weston Naef, curator of photographs, Getty Museum; Francoise Reynaud, curator of photographs at the Musee Carnavalet, Paris; and Michael S. Roth, associate director of the Getty Research Institute. This volume of the In Focus series is published to coincide with an exhibit of Atget's images from June 20 through October 18, 2000, at the Getty Museum."

Author : John Szarkowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Work of Atget: The art of old Paris written by John Szarkowski and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Work of Atget: The Art of Old Paris will be published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, on view in the West Wing Galleries of The Museum of Modern Art from October 14, 1982 through January 4, 1983. The book is the second of four exploring the art of the French photographer Eugene Atget. Support for The Work of Atget volumes has been generously provided by Springs Industries, Inc. During his lifetime, Atget was best known as a photographer of Old Paris, the subject of this volume. To create his portrait of Paris as it had appeared prior to the French Revolution, he photographed not only the famous sites and monuments--Notre Dame, the Pantheon, and the Luxembourg Palace--but also the little-noticed corners and artifacts that had escaped the urban renewal projects of the 19th century--the quiet courtyards, private town houses, and unexpected passageways. Perhaps no more intimate portrait of Old Paris exists than the one Atget painstakingly fashioned." "A biography of Atget by Mrs. Hambourg forms the text of the 192-page The Art of Old Paris. Drawing on new research, Mrs. Hambourg reveals more fully the life of this hitherto elusive and shadowy artist and offers new insights into his intellectual pursuits and his political and artistic associations. The 117 photographs in the exhibition are reproduced as full-page plates, printed in three color offset to insure the utmost fidelity to the original prints. The plates are fully annotated and accompanied by 95 reference illustrations."--Excerpt from the MoMA press release No. 31 (see link to PDF).

Author : Eugène Atget
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN 13 : 9781891024672
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eugène Atget's Trees written by Eugène Atget and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These studies of trees in the park at Saint-Cloud are essentially portraits of trees, some full-length, some details of roots or trunks--each a uniquely stark, high contrast abstraction of a genteel forest through the seasons.

Author : Jean-Claude Lemagny
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atget, the Pioneer written by Jean-Claude Lemagny and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Molly Nesbit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300059168
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atget's Seven Albums written by Molly Nesbit and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.