Eugene Atget Paris
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A flâneur and photographer at once Eugène Atget 1857 1927 was obsessed with walking the streets After trying his hand at painting and acting the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris He supplied studies for painters architects and stage designers but became enraptured by what he called documents of the city and its environs His scenes rarely included people but rather the architecture landscape and artifacts that made up the societal and cultural stage Atget was not particularly renowned during his lifetime but in the 1920s came to the attention of the Dada and Surrealist avant garde through Man Ray Four of his images with their particular fusion of mimesis and mystery appeared in the surrealist journal La Révolution Surréaliste while Ray and much of his artistic circle purchased Atget prints Atget s fame grew after his death with several articles and a monograph by Berenice Abbott Several leading photographers including Walker Evans and Bill Brandt have since acknowledged their debt to Atget This fresh TASCHEN edition gathers some 500 photographs from the Atget archives at Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris to celebrate his outstanding eye for the urban environment and evocation of a Paris gone by Down main streets and side streets past shops and churches through courtyards and arcades and the 20 arrondissements we find a unique portrait of a beloved city and the making of a modern photographic master Tanıtım Bülteninden
