Marie Robert

Luce Lebart

World History of Women Photographers

Emanuele Coccia

Teresa Castro

Philippe Dubois

Natasha Myers

Elena Vogman

Ludovic Coupaye

Edité par Teresa Castro

Perig Pitrou

Marie Rebecchi. Textes de Roberta Agnese

Émilie Letouzey

Marie Rebecchi

Matthew Vollgraff.

La vitalité révélée par la technique

Puissance du végétal et cinéma animiste

Pierre Borhan

Eugène Atget

Sylvie Aubenas

Jean-Claude Lemagny

Hotel de ville (Paris, France)

The works of the great French photographer Eugene Atget (1856-1927) are already internationally known through many books. His role as a highly influential pioneer of photography is less well appreciated. This beautiful new book explores Atget's legacy through his own photographs and those of his successors, names who are themselves legends in the history of the art: Berenice Abbott, Hila and Bernd Becher, Bill Brandt, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Michael Kenna, Lee Friedlander, Clarence John Laughlin, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Rene-Jacques, Bruno Requillard, August Sander. Through a selection of insightful essays and a stunning portfolio of more than 160 photos, Atget's work is juxtaposed with those of later photographers to produce a unique and ground-breaking analysis of a critical strand of photographic history. During his lifetime Atget's work held a fascination for contemporary Surrealist artists such as Man Ray; later Walker Evans drew on Atget's unflinching views of the Paris backstreets to create his own image of urban life, Cubism too found inspiration in the tightly framed spaces of Atget's Parisian streets. Publishing for the first time numerous photographs by Atget - including the newly discovered photos of trees in the park at Saint-Cloud - this book also presents texts by experts in the history of photography.

Atget, the Pioneer

Luce Lebart

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