Eugene Atget's Trees: Newly Discovered Photographs from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France

by Sylvie Aubenas

When Eug?ne Atget was still alive, photographs and photographers were considered in a different light than they are today. At that time, no one would have dreamed of considering Atget an artist; he himself seems to have concurred, maintaining that the pictures he sold--at a price of 1 to 3 francs--were no more than documents. Libraries and museums constituted some of his most important clients; between 1900 and 1927, the Department of Prints and Photography...

• Format: Leather Bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891024671
• ISBN13: 9781891024672
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 5.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 11.3" x 16.3"