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- Author : Gordon Baldwin
- Binding : Paperback
- EAN : 9780892366019
- Edition : 1
- ISBN : 089236601X
- Label : J. Paul Getty Museum
- Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
- Manufacturer : J. Paul Getty Museum
- Number Of Pages : 144
- Package Dimensions : 0.39 inches (Height) x 7.65 inches (Length) x 0.66 pounds (Weight) x 6.02 inches (Width)
- Product Group : Book
- Publication Date : 2000-08-10
- Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum
- SKU : ACOMMP2_book_usedgood_089236601X
- Studio : J. Paul Getty Museum
In this day and age we have pretty much taken photography for granted as an integral part of everyday life. There is the immediacy of Polaroids and the limitlessness of disposable cameras, which makes a picture taken today a distant cousin to the practice of early photography. Occasionally we need reminding of the roots of photographic image making: the glass plates, hand-coated emulsion and massive amounts of other accoutrements that were needed to make one image. In Atget, a selection from the lifetime work of legendary French photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927), we enter the world of early 20th-century photography, which was beginning to bid farewell to the hand-crafted picture.Atget was poised on the cusp between the techniques and materials of early photography and the moment things began to change and modern photography was born. From a laborious and time-consuming process came a much faster method that changed the nature of photography forever. Seemingly overnight the photograph went from something precious to something on its way to being accessible to all. Atget was among the first generation to photographically capture the world of ordinary citizens. While the subject matter was new, Atget was nevertheless steeped in the tradition of the old-world photograph. A crooked doorknocker is captured with loving attention to detail, an air of preciousness still present. Spindly trees, store windows, public gardens... each picture is delicate and romantic. It makes you wonder if absolutely everything was more beautiful in France. Included are insightful commentaries for each of the 100 tritone photographs and five duotones, plus a really great introduction by John Szarkowski, former Director of the Department of Photography at the MOMA. --J.P. Cohen
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Une fête aux Invalides où la foule se presse devant les baraquements, un rémouleur, un marchand d'abat-jour, un joueur d'orgue et une chanteuse de rues, la maison n°5 de la rue Thouin, le 10 août 1910, le jour de sa démolition, la Place Saint-André-des-Arts, un porche méridional à Notre-Dame, le boulevard Saint-Denis, des cours, des escaliers, des fontaines, des hôtels, les quais de la Tournelle et de l'Île Saint-Louis, des intérieurs chics ou populaires, des boutiques de jouets, un magasin de vêtements pour enfants... Personne n'a représenté Paris comme l'a fait Eugène Atget, trente ans durant, de 1897 à 1927. Et pas un espace de la capitale n'a échappé à l'oeil du photographe, qui a saisi, obstinément, tout ce que Paris contient de vivant et de figé, de pierre et de bois, de carrioles et de devantures. Paris, avec ses ouvriers, ses bourgeois, ses exclus aussi, ses marginaux, ses maisons closes et ses belles de nuit. Présenté par Andreas Krase, ce Paris, Eugène Atget, donne toute la dimension du photographe. "On se souviendra de lui comme d'un historien de l'urbanisme, d'un véritable romantique, d'un amoureux de Paris, d'un Balzac de la caméra." Ce sont les propos de Bérénice Abbott. Atget est mort en 1927, méconnu, peu de temps après sa rencontre avec la photographe américaine. Abbott n'a eu de cesse de révéler l'importance de ce pionnier, photographe majeur de l'histoire de la photographie. Quelque chose de fascinant et d'émouvant qu'on retrouve tout entier dans cet ouvrage. --Céline Darner
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