Works by the nineteenth-century French photographer show the gardens, shops, markets, churches, hotels, embassies, and street scenes of Paris

EUGENE ATGET

Arts & Photography

Atget, Eugène

Photography & Video

Pantheon

The World of Atget

Abbott, Berenice

PUTNAM

Photographs highlight the beauty of the wealthy in the countryside around Paris

Work of Atget, Volume IV. Modern Times

edited by John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg

Individual Artists

Museum of Modern Art

Looking at Atget

Renowned for his alluring and provocative photographs of the monuments, interiors, streets, and people of Paris, Eugène Atget (18571927) was fascinated with the myriad materials, textures, surfaces, and details of his subjects. Although not well known in his own lifetime, his influential work now appears in almost all the world’s major museums. This book, replete with exquisite reproductions of more than one hundred of Atget’s photographs, features selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s highly prized collection, including at least ten previously unpublished images and two albums in which the photographer stored his own work.Peter Barberie explores the earliest and most compelling accounts of Atget’s photography and recounts the efforts undertaken by photographer Berenice Abbott and art dealer Julien Levyeach with a different perspective on Atget’s workto bring his photographs to the United States and to promote his legacy. By analyzing how Atget assembled and organized his own albums, Barberie also offers fresh insights into how the photographer may have viewed his own work.

Price, Beth A.

Sutherland, Ken

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Eugène Atget (1857-1927) spent nearly thirty years photographing details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, and public sculptures in his beloved Paris. Yet before his death, he was practically unknown outside of that city. His genius was first recognized about 1924 by two young Americans living and working in Paris, Man Ray and his studio assistant, Berenice Abbott, who recognized the elements of contradiction, ambivalence, and ambiguity in Atget's images of Parisian architecture, streets, and parks. Presented in this volume are more than fifty of the Getty Museum's two hundred ninety-five pictures by Atget, with commentary on each image by Gordon Baldwin, associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. In Focus: Eugène Atget also contains a chronological overview of his life and an edited transcript of a colloquium on his career, with participants Baldwin; David Featherstone, independent editor and curator; photographer Robbert Flick, professor of art at the University of Southern California; independent scholar David Harris; Weston Naef, curator of photographs, Getty Museum; Françoise Reynaud, curator of photographs at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris; and Michael S. Roth, associate director of the Getty Research Institute. This volume of the In Focus series is published to coincide with an exhibit of Atget's images from June 20 through October 18, 2000, at the Getty Museum.

In Focus: Eugene Atget : Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

BALDWIN, Gordon

J.paul Getty Museum

Eugène Atget (1857-1927) spent nearly thirty years photographing details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, and public sculptures in his beloved Paris. Yet before his death, he was practically unknown outside of that city. His genius was first recognized about 1924 by two young Americans living and working in Paris, Man Ray and his studio assistant, Berenice Abbott, who recognized the elements of contradiction, ambivalence, and ambiguity in Atget's images of Parisian architecture, streets, and parks. Presented in this volume are more than fifty of the Getty Museum's two hundred ninety-five pictures by Atget, with commentary on each image by Gordon Baldwin, associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. In Focus: Eugène Atget also contains a chronological overview of his life and an edited transcript of a colloquium on his career, with participants Baldwin; David Featherstone, independent editor and curator; photographer Robbert Flick, professor of art at the University of Southern California; independent scholar David Harris; Weston Naef, curator of photographs, Getty Museum; Françoise Reynaud, curator of photographs at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris; and Michael S. Roth, associate director of the Getty Research Institute. This volume of the In Focus series is published to coincide with an exhibit of Atget's images from June 20 through October 18, 2000, at the Getty Museum.

Eugene Atget

Ben Lifson

Aperture

Lisette Model is an unsurpassed introduction to one of the twentieth century's most significant photographers--a woman whose searing images and eloquent teachings deeply influenced her students Diane Arbus, Larry Fink and many others. To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Model's death in 1983, Aperture is reissuing this classic, highly collectible 1979 monograph--the first book ever published on Model--in the original oversized trim and with the original distinctive design by Marvin Israel, along with an updated chronology and bibliography. This timeless volume contains more than 50 of Model's greatest images, from the rich idlers on the Promenade des Anglais in the South of France to the sad, funny and often eccentric inhabitants of New York's most subterranean haunts. As Berenice Abbott said in her preface, "One of the first reactions when looking at Model's pictures is that they make you feel good. You recognize them as real because real people express a bit of the univers

Photographe le plus célèbre du vieux Paris, Eugène Atget (1857-1927) commence par produire des " documents pour artistes ", comme l'énonce la plaque apposée sur son atelier dans les années 
1890. 
Les peintres ont besoin d'arbres, d'objets, de scènes de rues pour leurs compositions. Vers 1897-1898, il commence à photographier Paris de manière systématique. L'époque s'intéresse au patrimoine de la capitale et la commission du Vieux Paris commande à Atget plusieurs séries qu'il nomme Paris pittoresque, L'art dans le vieux Paris, Environs... Doté d'un imposant dispositif comprenant une chambre à soufflet avec un châssis chargé de plaques de verre, le photographe saisit la topographie d'une ville qui change. Petits métiers, étalages, cours d'immeubles, heurtoirs, charrettes, ruelles, cafés, chiffonniers de la zone, jardins urbains, parcs à demi abandonnés, quais de la Seine, cette obsessionnelle recherche fixe le détail de l'imprévu ; il en émane un sentiment de nostalgie, d'immédiate proximité, mais aussi une grande poésie. Atget procède de manière méthodique, progressant par arrondissements et quartiers, comme en témoignent ses carnets. 
Préférant les lumières du petit matin, le photographe réalise des milliers d'images destinées aux bibliothèques et aux musées. En 1906, la bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris lui commande un travail sur la topographie du vieux Paris. Son cheminement montre des rues souvent désertes, des façades impénétrables, des fenêtres ouvertes sur de sombres intérieurs : le monde est comme endormi, il y a peu d'habitants, qui apparaissent tels des spectres derrière leur fenêtre. L'absence humaine dramatise le réel. Les objets sont eux aussi dotés d'une présence insolite : chaussures accrochées dans une vitrine, paniers, fouet et rênes suspendus mais sans cocher... Documents ou oeuvres d'art ? 
Atget se qualifie d'auteur-éditeur : sa maîtrise absolue du cadrage, son attention aux lignes des bâtiments, aux détails inattendus, aux choses abandonnées élaborent un univers singulier. Chez Atget, la photographie est réduite à elle-même, elle n'a aucun apprêt. Dans les années 1920, son intérêt pour les objets du quotidien sortis de leur fonction fascine les surréalistes. Élève de Man Ray, l'Américaine Berenice Abbott est la première à comprendre son oeuvre. Elle acquiert à sa mort plus de mille plaques qu'elle vendra en 1968 au MoMA de New York, favorisant la diffusion de ses images aux États-Unis. Par son regard frontal, sa vision qui mêle imaginaire et réel, Atget a inventé la photographie moderne. 
Cet ouvrage présente environ 170 images de la collection du musée Carnavalet et offre une promenade onirique et esthétique, une jouissance de l'oeil que souligne le titre de l'exposition à la fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson qui accompagne cette publication.

Atget - Voir Paris

XAVIER BARRAL

From 1897 until his death in 1927 Atget was photographer of Paris par excellence. This book brings together 840 of his images arranged district by district, neighborhood by neighborhood-it is the most prolific collection of his work ever published. To turn the pages is to take an unforgettable stroll through the eerie, empty streets of Paris 70 years ago. It is a strange, largely unpeopled world where objects project an uncanny density: shoes dangling in a shop window, or the milk cart laden with cans and equipped with whip and reins but no driver. This is Atget's Paris and in typical Atget style those humans that do appear are the humble tradespeople, the ragpickers, the prostitutes.  Although hailed by the surrealists for the poetic quality of his images, Atget refused to accept that he was an artist, claiming that the pictures he took were simply documents. He has become known as the first modern photographer and had the unique ability to inject a tragic quality into ordinary things. As a special tribute this book has been formatted in the shape of a Parisian cobblestone.

Atget - Paris (Postcard Booklets Series)

BEAUMONT-MAILLET, Laure

Gingko Pr Inc

Atget

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EUGENE ATGET

The World of Atget

Work of Atget, Volume IV. Modern Times

Looking at Atget

In Focus: Eugene Atget : Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Eugene Atget

Eugene Atget

Atget - Voir Paris

Atget - Paris (Postcard Booklets Series)

Atget