Atget : postcards of a lost Paris : selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive /
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| Author / Creator: | Weiss, Benjamin. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Boston : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by ARTBOOK/D.A.P., [2017] ©2017 |
| Description: | 126 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11320639 |
| Summary: | Photographer Eugène Atget is best known as a chronicler of a romantic, if disappearing, Paris around the turn of the 20th century. This book presents a series of postcards depicting Paris's petits métiers, or little trades, exploring another side to Atget's oeuvre. More or less Atget's only published works during his lifetime, the postcards capture the ephemeral nature of life in the city and are part of a long tradition of depicting skilled tradespeople plying their wares. In them, Atget presents the market stands, the odd jobs, the cobbled together shops, and the informal entertainment that gave Paris its piquancy and eternally renewing liveliness. |
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| Physical Description: | 126 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780878468447 0878468447 |
