ISBN: 9781891024672 - eugene atget's trees: newly discovered photographs from the bibliotheque nationale de france: newly discovered photographs from the biblioteque nationale de france (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Fine in Card Covers in a Fine clamshell box. Number 0669 of 1000 copies. Folio.

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).…