The Work of Atget: The Art of Old Paris
Author: John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982
ISBN: 0-87070-212-2
Page Count: 192
Hardcover
Overview: First edition, first printing. Maroon cloth with debossed title blind-stamped on cover and in gilt on spine, with dust jacket. 192 pp. with 116 plates and 84 black and white reference illustrations.
Atget is a towering figure in the history of photography thanks first to his genius and second to Berenice Abbot who tirelessly promoted his work after his death. Summarizing him and his work is hard, and we refer readers unfamiliar with him to the lengthy Wikipedia article. But as a short cut, consider that cityscape and architectural photos he took have been identified as the source or vantage points for paintings by Utrillo, Degas, and Derain. There is even a planetary crater on Mercury named after him.
As for this volume, one of his rare surviving quotes, from 1920, gives the context: For more than 20 years I have been working alone and of my own initiative in all the old streets of Old Paris to make a collection of 18 × 24cm photographic negatives: artistic documents of beautiful urban architecture from the 16th to the 19th centuries…today this enormous artistic and documentary collection is finished; I can say that I possess all of Old Paris
Description: Very good in all aspects.
Author: John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982
ISBN: 0-87070-212-2
Page Count: 192
Hardcover
Overview: First edition, first printing. Maroon cloth with debossed title blind-stamped on cover and in gilt on spine, with dust jacket. 192 pp. with 116 plates and 84 black and white reference illustrations.
Atget is a towering figure in the history of photography thanks first to his genius and second to Berenice Abbot who tirelessly promoted his work after his death. Summarizing him and his work is hard, and we refer readers unfamiliar with him to the lengthy Wikipedia article. But as a short cut, consider that cityscape and architectural photos he took have been identified as the source or vantage points for paintings by Utrillo, Degas, and Derain. There is even a planetary crater on Mercury named after him.
As for this volume, one of his rare surviving quotes, from 1920, gives the context: For more than 20 years I have been working alone and of my own initiative in all the old streets of Old Paris to make a collection of 18 × 24cm photographic negatives: artistic documents of beautiful urban architecture from the 16th to the 19th centuries…today this enormous artistic and documentary collection is finished; I can say that I possess all of Old Paris
Description: Very good in all aspects.
Author: John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982
ISBN: 0-87070-212-2
Page Count: 192
Hardcover
Overview: First edition, first printing. Maroon cloth with debossed title blind-stamped on cover and in gilt on spine, with dust jacket. 192 pp. with 116 plates and 84 black and white reference illustrations.
Atget is a towering figure in the history of photography thanks first to his genius and second to Berenice Abbot who tirelessly promoted his work after his death. Summarizing him and his work is hard, and we refer readers unfamiliar with him to the lengthy Wikipedia article. But as a short cut, consider that cityscape and architectural photos he took have been identified as the source or vantage points for paintings by Utrillo, Degas, and Derain. There is even a planetary crater on Mercury named after him.
As for this volume, one of his rare surviving quotes, from 1920, gives the context: For more than 20 years I have been working alone and of my own initiative in all the old streets of Old Paris to make a collection of 18 × 24cm photographic negatives: artistic documents of beautiful urban architecture from the 16th to the 19th centuries…today this enormous artistic and documentary collection is finished; I can say that I possess all of Old Paris
Description: Very good in all aspects.