Atget: Photographe De Paris

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(Books on Books No.1). Published in 1930, three years after Atget's death, his Photographe de Paris is now regarded as a classic that has influenced many generations of artists, including Berenice Abbott and Walker Evens. This present edition reproduces all 96 collotype plates from the original, as well as a translation of the original Pierre Mac Orlan text on Atget's remarkable documentation of Paris at the turn of the 19thcentury. David Campany contributes a contemporary essay, 'Atget's Intelligent Documents,' written for this publication. 112p.