SEAN SCULLY

BEAUMONT-MAILLET, Laure

Arts & Photography

CERCLE D'ART

<p>Ce livre réunit 840 photographies d'Atget sur Paris. Il est organisé par arrondissements et quartiers, comme l'avait conçu Atget pour son parcours dans la ville et le classement de ses documents. La forme du livre, celle d'un pavé parisien, est en elle-même une manière d'hommage à ce piéton mythique, l'un des plus inspirés flâneurs de la capitale.<br><br>Ce comédien ambulant, ce peintre raté, cet original solitaire est l'auteur d'une oeuvre d'une force et d'une originalité telles, que l'image de Paris que chacun de nous porte avec lui s'en trouve nécessairement imprégnée. Atget commence à photographier en 1890, pour des peintres, mais très vite il s'attaque à son grand oeuvre: la description de Paris, à laquelle jusqu'à sa mort en 1927, il consacre plus de 3 000 clichés. Rues et façades, balcons, grilles, escaliers, cours, heurtoirs, mais aussi voitures, petits métiers, intérieurs bourgeois ou prolétaires, vitrines, composent un tableau étrange et fascinant. Pourtant, lorsque ses voisins de la rue Campagne-Première -Man Ray, Berenice Abbott, De Chirico- l'auront « découvert », toujours il se défendra d'être un artiste : « Ce ne sont que des documents, des documents que je fais. » Après une biographie d'Atget par Laure Beaumont-Maillet, conservateur en chef du département des Estampes de la Bibliothèque nationale, près de 1000 documents sont reproduits, choisis parmi les collections de la Bibliothèque nationale, du musée Carnavalet, de la Caisse des Monuments historiques, de l'Institut français d'Architecture. Ils sont présentés par quartiers de manière à recomposer la recherche et l'itinéraire d'Eugène Atget.</p>

Atget Paris

Photography & Video

Gingko Pr Inc

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.

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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 (English and French Edition)

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