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Atget Paris (English and French Edition) Paperback – January 1, 1993

French Edition by Laure Beaumont-Maillet (Author)
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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.

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  1. Print length
    788 pages
  2. Language
    French, English
  3. Publisher
    Gingko Pr Inc
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1993
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 2.5 x 7.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    3927258075
  7. ISBN-13
    978-3927258075
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"...a photographer's feast. There never was a gourmand's publication of Atget. Until now.'' -- Los Angeles Times, Sunday Book Review

''The photos comprise one of the great works of art of the last two centuries'' -- Newsweek

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gingko Pr Inc (January 1, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French, English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 788 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3927258075
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3927258075
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.9 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 2.5 x 7.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

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David K
5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020
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A time capsule of Paris over a hundred years ago . Atjet must have taken all the pictures just after dawn since there are no people inhabiting the photos so they have an eerie feeling of an abandoned city. This is not the glamorous or tourist view of Paris but the gritty hard reality of the buildings with forgotten details like door knockers or metalwork . It's like looking at very unglamorous women just getting out of bed with no makeup and before they comb their hair but photographed artistically.
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Anne H
5.0 out of 5 stars ~800 pictures of Paris Street Views
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2015
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This was the third Atget photography book I bough, and was the one I was looking for. There are over 700 pages of mostly large sized photos, usually a single one to a page, but 2-4 per page pop up every now and again. It is divided into various quartiers and features photos taken from those areas. The photos are almost all general street views. So interiors and closeups on details, railings, and little sculptural flourishes won't be found in this book, but tons of buildings, a few people, storefronts, and some carts and carriages.
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Ruth Rogers
5.0 out of 5 stars I can stare at these for hours
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2013
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There's something about Atget... I've always loved his work. And this book is just chock full of all kinds of photos, some great, some not perfect, but all just pull me in.
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eric m castelein
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2014
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On of the first eyes on the street in Paris when photography was in it's infancy.
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Merilahti Kristiina
4.0 out of 5 stars wonderful pictures, but...
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2005
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I was recommended this book by a valued friend who loved this. I can understand his opinion, Atget took lovely pictures of a world that seems beautiful in a ghostly way. People in that world weren't tall and pretty but there is photographic beauty in their pictures. And the streets always seem incredibly empty and misty and dusty. Is this really the city that was huge and vibrant already back then?

The pictures are lovely and interesting. And the book is very, very thick and contains a massive amount of Atget's photos, but the book is only about the normal pocket-book size, so when there are pages with even two pictures, the photos are bound to be small. At the same time I found a French edition of a series of French master photographers in the art-book size and it really brought up these photos better. But I got this book used through Amazon in a ridiculously low price and it's not exactly a bad edition. The pictures are on quality paper and there are so many of them that you'll spend many nights flicking through this book. It just could be bigger...
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Katsuyuki Tanaka
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2015
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It was an expected splendid book.
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Beetlebum
5.0 out of 5 stars The beauty and degradation of a great city...
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2001
This book is perhaps one of the most wonderful collections of photographs that I have ever had the pleasure of owning. Eugène Atget, a failed actor, painter, sailor, and soldier, eventually settled on photography as a career some thirty-odd years into his life, and set out to make a photographic record of the whole of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. By 1920, some 4,000 negatives existed, from which many have been culled for the present volume.
Of course, as cities, go, Paris, like London or Rome, has perhaps more than its share of photogenic sites. However, oddly enough, considering that these photos are more than three quarters of a century old, no book has ever reproduced the experience of Paris more to my taste than this collection of Atget's work. Organised by arrondissement (the subsections into which the whole of Paris is divided), the book offers a systematic voyage past landmarks familiar and unfamiliar. Images of the Jardin des Tuilleries, Notre Dame, the Palais du Louvre, the Champs-Elysées and so many other familiar names and places are here. Faces of long-dead Parisians stare out from streets now populated by their descendants. It is as though the very images, bathed in light now a century gone, come to life in these photos. All the majesty and squalor, the beauty and degradation of a great city; these things are all captured by Atget's lens. The effect is moving and eerie, and suits what is arguably the Continent's greatest city down to the ground.
And, on a strictly personal note, one of my favourite photos is taken from the 17th Arrondissement, in the Quartier des Ternes. It is of a café in the Avenue de la Grande-Armée, dated 1924 or 1925, empty chairs and tables bathed in sunlight, and an advert for Bass Extra Stout painted on the window! Truly a sublime moment.
Do yourself a favour, if you enjoy old photographs or love Paris, or both. Find a copy of this book, and enjoy it on those days when you can't actually be there.
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Christl
5.0 out of 5 stars New Edition with better reproductions
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2007
It appears that some reviews may be referring to previous edtions of this classic volume on Atget. The latest (2007) edition is printed and bound in a far superior volume. The photographic reproductions along with the paper and binding are both greatly improved. Highly recommended.
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森河俊一
5.0 out of 5 stars ピカイチ
Reviewed in Japan on June 29, 2016
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以前からとても欲しかった写真集ですえ大変気に入りました。有難うございます。
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オンブレ
3.0 out of 5 stars 版が違う？
Reviewed in Japan on July 28, 2007
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到着してまず驚くのは、その厚さ。
6cm？。（うわ！）
Atgetの作品の、ほとんどを網羅しているのだろう。
資料としては、一級品だと思う。
ただし、プリントの質はあまり良くない。
細部が完全に白飛びしているものも散見される。
他のAtgetの書籍と比べても、見劣りしてしまう。
以前、書かれたレビューとは、ちょっと違うな、というのが正直な感想。
犯人は、版の違いか、プリントか印刷かは、わからない。
どちらかというと、ある程度「突っ込んだ」方向けなのではないかと思う。
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