| Description |
199 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Observing Eugene Atget -- Ch. 2. Atget's Life As a Commercial Photographer -- Ch. 3. Atget at Work -- Ch. 4. Seven Parisian Sites -- 1. Hotel de Beauvais -- 2. Hotel de Ranes and the rue Visconti -- 3. The rue du Pare-Royal, the rue de Sevigne, and the rue de Jarente -- 4. Intersection of the rue de I'Abbaye, the rue Cardinale, the rue de l'Echaude, the passage de la Petite-Boucherie, and the rue Bourbon-le-Chateau -- 5. The quays surrounding the Pont-Neuf -- 6. Place Bernard Halpern -- 7. The Church of Saint-Severin -- Ch. 5. Conclusion |
| Summary |
"During the first quarter of the twentieth century the short stocky figure of photographer Eugene Atget was a familiar sight in Paris. From 1898 until his death in 1927, Atget took approximately five thousand negatives in the city, systematically documenting its historic core; its building and monuments, its ancient streets and civic spaces, its public parks and gardens. Atget chose not to represent a particular site by a single, definitive photograph; instead he consistently produced sequences of interrelated images to create a cumulative portrait of each setting." |
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"Featuring 240 of Atget's photographs - only a few of which have previously been published - this book examines Atget's approach to photography by studying these sequences; his pictures of an individual building, a street an intersection, the quays along the river Seine, and a neighborhood. Assembling these images into coherent groups, Unknown Paris displays the direct and integral relationship between the photographer's working method and his subject matter in turn revealing the distinctive character of old Paris itself."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published in France as Eugène Atget : itinéraires parisiens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Atget, Eug©·ne, 1857-1927
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Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927.
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Photography, Artistic.
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| SUBJECT |
Paris (France) -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116529
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| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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| Author |
Harris, David, 1950-
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| LC no. |
2003050961 |
| ISBN |
1565848683 hardcover |
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1565848543 paperback |
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