Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget / text, Clark Worswick.

Title & Author:

Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget / text, Clark Worswick.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Santa Fe, New Mexico : Arena Editions, [2002]
©2002

Description:

163 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Details Abbott's rare prints of Atget's negatives ... one of the few instances of one great photographer printing another great photographer's work"--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Abbott & Atget / by Clark Worwick -- The world of Atget / by Berenice Abbott -- Colophon.

Summary:

"Eugene Atget's photographs of Paris are among the greatest works in photography made at any time, in any place. Spanning a twenty-nine-year period (1898-1927), Atget's photographs are literally the Paris of our collective imagination." "In 1927 Berenice Abbot became the largest collector of Atget's work when she purchased his estate. For the next forty years, Abbott devoted much of her creative life to popularizing Atget's work. Our vision of Eugene Atget and Atget's Paris was literally Abbott's invention. Drawn from work in previously unpublished archives, this book details Abbott's rare prints of Atget's negatives for the first time." "Today, Atget's work forms the bedrock of an American modernist photographic vision. Yet the Abbott/Atget printings are among the least known and most vibrant prints in the photographic medium. This work represents one of the few instances of one great photographer printing another great photographer's work. Representing perhaps only one percent of Atget's surviving work, the prints are Abbott's vision of the photographer who single-handedly changed photographic modernism in the twentieth century."--Jacket

ISBN:

1892041634
9781892041630

Subject:

Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927.
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991 Photograph collections.
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991.
Abbott, Berenice 1898-1991
Atget, Eugène 1856-1927
Abbott, Berenice
Atget, Eugène
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Photograph collections
Bildband
Fotografie
Foto's.
Photographie
Paris (France) Pictorial works.
France Paris

Form/genre:

Essays.
photobooks.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Bildband
Photobooks.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Worswick, Clark, writer of added text.

Berenice Abbott & Eugene Atget
Berenice Abbott and Eugene Atget

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225280
Call No.: TR140.A942 B4 2002
Status: Available

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