Looking at Atget / Peter Barberie ; with an essay on the photographic materials by Beth A. Price and Ken Sutherland.

Main entry:

Barberie, Peter, 1970-

Title & Author:

Looking at Atget / Peter Barberie ; with an essay on the photographic materials by Beth A. Price and Ken Sutherland.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 125 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Looking at Atget, Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 10 to November 27, 2005"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 121) and index.
Looking at Atget / Peter Barberie -- Looking at Atget's and Abbott's prints: the photographic materials / Beth A. Price and Ken Sutherland.

Summary:

"Renowned for his alluring and provocative photographs of the monuments, interiors, streets, and people of Paris and its environs, Eugène Atget (1857-1927) carefully recorded the details of his subjects for a range of clients, including artists, designers, and libraries. Although not well known in his lifetime, Atget's influential work is now in the collections of almost all of the world's major museums. This book, replete with exquisite reproductions of 110 Atget photographs--including a number of previously unpublished images--features selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's magnificent holdings, comprised largely of works from the collection of the celebrated American gallery owner Julien Levy. Peter Barberie explores the earliest and most compelling accounts of Atget's photography and describes the efforts undertaken by Levy and by the American photographer Berenice Abbott--each with a different perspective on Atget's work--to promote his legacy in the United States. By analyzing how Atget organized the albums he used in his workroom and sold to his institutional clients, Barberie also offers fresh insights into the photographer's working methods and purposes. Conservation scientists Beth A. Price and Ken Sutherland discuss their findings about the processes and materials used by Atget and by Abbott, who printed from Atget's negatives after acquiring the contents of his studio in 1928"--Jacket.

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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0876331894 (PMA cloth)
9780876331897 (PMA cloth)
0876331908 (PMA paper)
9780876331903 (PMA paper)
0300111371 (Yale cloth)
9780300111378 (Yale cloth)

Subject:

Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927 Exhibitions.
Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927 Expositions
Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927
Atget, Eugène.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic.
PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTISTIC--EXHIBITIONS.
Art
Historical

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927.
Price, Beth A.
Sutherland, Ken, 1970-
Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238520
Call No.: TR140.A6942 B3 2005
Status: Available

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