In Focus: Eugène Atget - Gordon Baldwin

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Résumé :

Eug?ne 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: Eug?ne Atget also contains a chronological overview of his life and an edited transcript of a colloquium on his career, with participants Baldwin...

Biographie:
photographer Robbert Flick, professor of art at the University of Southern California...

Sommaire:
David Featherstone, independent editor and curator...