Atget

Atget
Author: John Szarkowski
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2003
Genre:
ISBN: 0870705784

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.

Paris Changing

Paris Changing
Author: Christopher Rauschenberg
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007-10-04
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781568986807

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.

Books on Books 1

Books on Books 1
Author: Eugène Atget
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2008
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

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

Eugène Atget

Eugène Atget
Author: Eugène Atget
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2011
Genre: Architectural photography
ISBN: 9788498443028

Gardens

Gardens
Author: Mary A. Vance
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1985
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

The Photographer in the Garden

The Photographer in the Garden
Author: Sarah Anne McNear
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Gardens
ISBN: 9781597113731

From Versailles to the home vegetable garden, from worlds imagined by artists to food production recorded by journalists, The Photographer in the Garden traces the garden's rich history in photography and delights readers with spectacular photographs. An informative essay from curator Jamie M. Allen and commentaries by Sarah Anne McNear broaden our understanding of photography and explore our unique relationship with nature through the garden. This is a sublime book bringing together some of history's most stunning photography.

Eugène Atget's Trees

Eugène Atget's Trees
Author: Eugène Atget
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Photograph collections
ISBN: 9781891024672

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.