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"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...
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James Borcoman, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, has produced a book that details the museum's entire Atget holding of 146 pictures. Twenty-four of these photographs are also printed as duotone plates. Placing Atget in the artistic and cultural context of the times, Borcoman traces his career as photographer along with providing much historical information regarding nineteenth-century photography.
3) The Waking dream: photography's first century : selections from the Gilman Paper Company collection
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An "evanescent shadow, a delicate, just perceptible image, the trace of a small plant on a field of periwinkle blue." With this description of one of the very earliest photographic experiments, Maria Morris Hambourg begins the riveting story of photography's first century, a story that concludes on the eve of World War II with the dramatic photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Walker Evans, images imprinted indelibly into the consciousness...
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