Eugène Atget

Author : John Szarkowski
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780870705786

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Atget by John Szarkowski Pdf

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 : Gerry Badger,Eugène Atget
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015054268902

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Five Great Innovators of Photography by Gerry Badger,Eugène Atget Pdf

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 : Eugène Atget,J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 089236601X

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Eugène Atget by Eugène Atget,J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

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 : Christopher Rauschenberg,Eugène Atget,Clark Worswick,Alison Nordstrom,Rosamond Bernier
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1568986807

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Paris Changing by Christopher Rauschenberg,Eugène Atget,Clark Worswick,Alison Nordstrom,Rosamond Bernier Pdf

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,Pierre MacOrlan,David Campany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architectural photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132185989

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Books on Books 1 by Eugène Atget,Pierre MacOrlan,David Campany Pdf

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

Author : Eugène Atget,William Howard Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015010979170

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Atget's Gardens by Eugène Atget,William Howard Adams Pdf

Author : Greg Bogaerts
Publisher : Shanti Arts Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780988589711

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Walking Paris Streets with Eugène Atget by Greg Bogaerts Pdf

Walking Paris Streets With Eugene Atget: Inspired Stories About the Ragpicker, Lampshade Vendor, and Other Characters and Places of Old France is a collection of sixteen stories inspired by photographs of early twentieth-century photographer Eugene Atget, often regarded as the first "street photographer." These masterfully-written stories bring the characters in Atget's photographs to life as they confront and suffer through the social and political changes that led to modern France. Some characters are endearing, some are despicable; a few characters rouse a good chuckle and others prompt feelings of grief and sadness. All of the characters and their stories are unforgettable, all securely tethered to the places, history, and mythos of Old France.

Author : Eugène Atget,Sylvie Aubenas
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Photograph collections
ISBN : 1891024671

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Eugène Atget's Trees by Eugène Atget,Sylvie Aubenas Pdf

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 : John Szarkowski,Maria Morris Hambourg,Eugène Atget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015012440163

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The Work of Atget: The art of old Paris by John Szarkowski,Maria Morris Hambourg,Eugène Atget Pdf

"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 : Kevin D. Moore
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300235791

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Old Paris and Changing New York by Kevin D. Moore Pdf

An insightful new look at two renowned photographers, their interconnected legacies, and the vital documents of urban transformation that they created In this comprehensive study, Kevin Moore examines the relationship between Eugène Atget (1857-1927) and Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) and the nuances of their individual photographic projects. Abbott and Atget met in Man Ray's Paris studio in the early 1920s. Atget, then in his sixties, was obsessively recording the streets, gardens, and courtyards of the 19th-century city--old Paris--as modernization transformed it. Abbott acquired much of Atget's work after his death and was a tireless advocate for its value. She later relocated to New York and emulated Atget in her systematic documentation of that city, culminating in the publication of the project Changing New York. This engaging publication discusses how, during the 1930s and 1940s, Abbott paid further tribute to Atget by publishing and exhibiting his work and by printing hundreds of images from his negatives, using the gelatin silver process. Through Abbott's efforts, Atget became known to an audience of photographers and writers who found diverse inspiration in his photographs. Abbott herself is remembered as one of the most independent, determined, and respected photographers of the 20th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110852485

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Berenice Abbott's Changing New York, 1935-1939 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Berenice Abbott
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015018957962

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Photographs by Berenice Abbott Pdf

Author : Molly Nesbit,Eugène Atget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300059167

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Atget's Seven Albums by Molly Nesbit,Eugène Atget Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Sramek
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783202263

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Piercing Time by Peter Sramek Pdf

Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary ‘rephotographs’ taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles Marville, who worked under Georges Haussmann, and corresponding photographs by Eugène Atget taken in the early twentieth century. Revisiting the sites of Marville’s photographs with a black cloth, tripod and view camera, Peter Sramek creates here a visually stunning book that investigates how urban development, the use of photography as a documentary medium and the representation of urban space reflect attitudes towards the city. The essays that run alongside these fascinating images discuss subjects such as the aesthetics of ruins and the documentation of the demolitions that preceded Haussmannization, as well as the different approaches taken by Marville and Atget to their work. The book also includes contemporary interviews with local Parisians, extracts from Haussmann’s own writing and historical maps that allow for an intriguing look at the shifting city plan. Sure to be of interest to lovers of the city, be they Parisians or visitors, Piercing Time provides a unique snapshot of historical changes of the past 150 years. But it will also be of enduring value to scholars. The accurate cataloguing and high quality reproductions of the images make it a resource for a significant portion of the Marville collection in the Musée Carnavalet, and it will aid further research in urban history and change in Paris over the past century and a half. Photographers will be drawn to the book for its new thinking in relation to documentary methodologies.

Author : Burt Chernow
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0312280742

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude by Burt Chernow Pdf

For forty years, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-and-wife team behind countless headline-grabbing art projects all over the world, have been challenging our view of the world - natural or man-made - by giving us wrapped creations of dizzying magnitude and daring beauty, such as 'Surrounded Islands', which consisted of enveloping eleven islands with seven square miles of hot pink material. This is the first fully authorised biography of these celebrated and controversial artists, illustrated with 50 b/w photos and one 16-page colour photo insert.