Eugène Atget. Paris (Bibliotheca Universalis) (Multilingual Edition)

This is a wonderful book. I found many new photos for myself that I have not seen before. I would also like to note the good print quality. This is a book that is nice to hold in your hands.

Although the book is a bit small whose size reminds me of the classic Photo Poche, it is an exquisite anthology of the master's dreamy yet superbly composed imagery of his beloved Paris. A must for any Atget fan!

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What a wonderful little book of Atget's Paris photos, sorted by arrondisements . If you are an Atget's fan, this book is a must.

Great collection of work from one of my favorite photographers.

the impressionist had risen and modernism was simmering.

Tons of good photos

Ok, my 3 star review is a little unfair because I am allowing my opinion of Atget's work to color the actual design and presentation of the book. At a perfectly purse sized dimension, with exhaustive selections from every Arrondissement, the book itself is lovely. I greatly enjoy its design and organization. That said, about halfway through the book I began to unfortunately see Atget's work through my modern photographer's eye. Atget, to me, with four to five distinct exceptions, is not an artist. He is, rather, a craftsmen. He provided a service of vast historical significance, recording the gradual destruction of Medieval and Enlightenment Paris as it constantly reinvented itself decade to decade. For this reason, his work is priceless as a documentary record of those things completely lost to time and 'progress'. But I cannot call him an artist, as I can Brassai, because essentially what he created were postcards. Very beautiful postcards, but postcards none the less. His eye is not romantic or provocative or abstract or interested in mood or emotion in any sense other than perhaps nostalgia. He simply points his lens at a street corner and with no frills and with no particular artistic agenda, releases his shutter. So, historically the book is interesting, but it gets boring and repetitive at about the 7th Arrondissement. I completely understand his place in the history of photography, but he is a historian, a documentarian, an absolutely objective, scientific eye. This has its uses, but inspiring, provoking, challenging or destroying the status quo is not his intent. You may love this, and I am happy to have this book, but it does not have the romance of Brassai.

Atget widmete Paris einen großen Teil seines Lebens. Bepackt mit einer schweren und sperrigen Ausrüstung erwanderte er die Stadt und fotografierte Strassen, Plätze, Gebäude und Menschen. Dabei hatte er einen gewissen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit. Der Band ist ordentlich kuratiert, hat sinnvoll ergänzende kurze Texte und die Fotografien sind in ansprechender Qualität gedruckt. Mich hat Atget sehr inspiriert. Vor allem auch durch dieses Buch. Gehen, schauen, auslösen. Wer es versucht, spürt schnell, dass einen das tief in die Szene versetzt und gleichzeitig eine gewisse Distanz zur Umgebung schafft. Vermutlich hat Atget den Fotowalk erfunden. Und diese Leidenschaft sieht man seinem Werk an.

Buen libro, rápida entrega

注文して見つからず、2ヶ月後に到着。キャンセルしなくて良かった! 100年前のパリ。他に誰が写真を撮っていたのでしょうか。アンリ・カルティエ・ブレッソンやロベールドアノーより以前にパリの街角を撮り続け、亡くなってその価値を認められた。 今は無き風景の数々と言われていたが、これらの写真に撮られた街角の半分はまだ存在しているらしい。早くコロナが終息してパリに行って確かめたい! そんな気にさせる夢が詰まった1冊です。しかし、アジェの写真集は何故こんなに安いのでしょうか? 超お買い得で、私の写真のバイブルとして永久保存版です。

O fotógrafo Eugène Atget , com este pequeno volume da Taschen (pequeno no tamanho, grande no conteúdo ...), nos dá uma bela mostra de Paris no século XIX, fazendo-nos descobrir Paris "arrondissement par arrondissement ", bairro por bairro......preciosa documentação !!

Abbiamo scoperto questo libro in un articolo di una rivista di fotografia. Cercato e trovato su Amazon, ci piacciono tantissimo le foto che forniscono un ritratto incredibilmente affascinante di Parigi