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Photographs by Eugene Atget, Kenneth Josephson, Edward Weston and others. Free. 898-5864. Judgment Workshop: How to do your own divorce; family support ...

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Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris

by: Christopher Rauschenberg
Last summer I saw the Atget exhibit at the Bibliotheque Nationale, which was a marvelous passage through a lost time. This book matches some of those absorbing old photos with photos of the same location taken today. I think it's a fascinating book and I can lose myself in the nuances while comparing the photos. This pasttime may not be to everyone's taste, but I highly recommend the book to thoughtful people who enjoy looking at things.
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Atget

by: John Szarkowski
Eugene Atget is known to everyone, perhaps not by name in all instances, but at least by the images of Paris and environs that grace all manner of books, essays, brochures, museums, art collections, and postcards throughout the world. At the time of his death in 1927 his enormous output of images was archived and has subsequently been studied, purchased and shared with exhibitions too numerous to mention. Yet in this fine book the essence of Atget the observer is appreciated as well as any publication of the many about the pioneering photographer, a man who served as an important bridge from studio formality of the art to entering the human realm of images of people on the streets of Paris and the surrounding areas.
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Berenice Abbott & Eugène Atget

by: Clark Worswick
Eugene Atget’s photographs of Paris between 1898 and 1927 form the bedrock of an American modernist photographic vision. In 1927, Berenice Abbott, one of the century’s most renowned photographers in her own right, became the largest collector of Atget’s work when she purchased his estate. For the next 40 years (1929–1969), Abbott devoted much of her creative life to popularizing the work of Atget. Representing her vision of Atget’s tapestry of Parisian life, this book reproduces and discusses the rare prints created by Abbott from Atget negatives — one of the few instances of one great photographer printing another great photographer’s work.
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Eugene Atget: Unknown Paris

by: David Harris
This book does a very good job of piecing together Atget's photography techniques and explorations. it goes deeply into the subject of Atget's "documentary" style of photography in Paris. He took many pictures of the same spaces but from different angles to achieve different effects. Full prints of his photographs constitute more than half of the book, and balance out the more lengthy explanations by David Harris. This book is organized into three main sections which make for easy navigation through its pages.
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