Atget eugene photographer (2 Ergebnisse)

First edition. Square quarto (10-1/2"). 428pp. Triple column text. Index and bibliography. Photo illustrated dust jacket, spine lightly sun-faded, over purple cloth lettered in black. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Merest hint of shelf contact at bottom of text block, otherwise a fine, as new copy. Between 1909 and 1915 Eugene Atget produced seven albums [that were never published] 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. (OCLC) "This brilliantly researched and argued book will shed a great deal of light on the history of photography. " Rosalind Krauss A volume in the series, "Yale Publications in the History of Art.".…

Softcover. Zustand: near fine. Folio (16" x 11-1/2"). 13, (1), (4)pp. Plus 39 leaves of tipped in black & white plates (rectos only). Black spine strip over flexible cardboard wraps, front cover lettered in black & red. Rear wrapper is affixed to inner back cover of publisher's heavy gray & red clamshell box, spine & front cover of box lettered in black & red. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies (this is #222). Tiny smudge at bottom of front cover of clamshell box, but otherwise a beautiful near fine copy. "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 uniquely stark." (Fraenkel Gallery) "At get's work is a simple revelation of the simplest aspect of his environment. There is no superimposed symbolic motive, no tottered application of design, no intellectual axe to grind. The Atget prints are. perhaps the earliest expression of true photographic art." (Ansel Adams).…