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In 1968, The Museum of Modern Art acquired some 5,000 prints and plates which Berenice Abbott had purchased from Eugene Atget's estate in 1928. For the next 12 years, the Dept of Photography carried on the work first of organizing the collection, then of attempting the reconstruction of both Atget's own complex record system and the chronology of his production. For the first time it became possible to date with reasonable accuracy almost all of Atget's work and to speculate as to the function that individual pictures were meant to serve. The four volumes in this series correspond to the author's sense of the principal issues, defined in terms of subject matter, that are presented in Atget's work. The illustrations were printed with three offset impressions, to insure the utmost fidelity to the original photographs. The first volume deals with the French countryside, the disappearing vestiges of "La Vieille France." The second volume concentrates on the sites and monuments as well as the little-known corners and oft-overlooked artifacts of the Paris untouched by Haussmann's renovations. Volume 3 contains Atget's photos of the monuments of the Ancien Regime with images made at the chateaux and parks of the French kings and noble families; principally, Versailles, Saint-Cloud, and Sceaux's formal gardens. The theme of the last volume is contemporary Paris - street scenes, shops, artisans at their trades, domestic interiors, carnivals, and cafes.

fotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- Atget Eugène --- Paris --- Frankrijk --- kastelen --- tuinen --- parken --- landschapsfotografie --- architectuurfotografie --- Versailles --- Sceaux --- Saint-Cloud --- 77.071 ATGET --- Atget, Eugène, --- interieurfotografie --- stadsfotografie --- straatfotografie --- Photographie artistique --- 19e siècle --- 20e siècle --- Photographe --- Atget, Eugène --- Atget, Eugène, - 1857-1927