The Work of Atget: Volume I: Old France. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Work of Atget: Volume I: Old France

Hardcover. 4to. Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1981. 177 pgs. Illustrated with 120 full-page Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (rear panel starting to delaminate a little). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "Eugene Atget was a commercial photographer who worked in and around Paris for more than thirty years. When he died in 1927, his work was known only to a few archivists and artists. Little is known about his life and less about his intentions." "In his lifetime, Atget made perhaps then thousand photographs. Almost all of these describe the historic character of French life, as indicated by its architecture, its landscapes, and its traditional labors and vernacular gestures. To many photographers today, his work stands not only as a heroic and original achievement, but as an exemplary pedagogical lesson." ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 178 pages.…