Atget: Photographe de Paris
- New York: E. Weyhe, 1930
New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. A fine copy in silken boards with gilt titles; accompanied by the publisher's original cardstock slipcase. All housed in custom clamshell case, with leather lettering piece to spine. One of the key publications in photography's self-documentation, preserved in original condition.. First Edition, American version. Quarto. The influential first monograph on Eugène Atget, with its 96 images selected mostly from the collection of a young Berenice Abbott, who came to admire Atget through her position at Man Ray's studio in Montmartre. Published in parallel with an exhibition of Atget's photographs at New York's Weyhe Gallery, this American version features a lengthy preface from Pierre Mac-Orlan (in French), 96 collotype plates, and a frontispiece portrait of Atget by Abbott herself. (Parr/Badger v1, 127).
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Title
Atget: Photographe de Paris
Author
ATGET, Eugene and Berenice Abbott
Condition
Fine
Publisher
New York: E. Weyhe
Date
1930