Paris : photographs from a time that was / David Travis.

Main entry:

Travis, David, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

Paris : photographs from a time that was / David Travis.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Art Institute of Chicago, [2005]
New Haven : Yale University Press

Description:

100 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, 13 Aug. to 6 Nov. 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-26).
Preface and acknowledgments / James Cuno -- Paris: photographs from a time that was -- Plates.

Summary:

Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, André Kertész, Jacques Henri Lartigue---some of the greatest photographers of Paris---were hardly known when they began their most innovative work. Being obscure and thus unburdened by career expectations, they experimented using the city as subject matter and backdrop and developed an entirely new approach to photographic imagery.
These photographers, in focusing on Paris, followed in the footsteps of Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the boulevard flâneurs of the late 19th century who made walking and observing city life a philosophical and aesthetic experience. The new generation's acceptance and celebration of the fluidity of the city's street life focused on time as a new element in making photographs. This became one of the chief virtues of their profession as photojournalists for new illustrated magazines that would eventually make them famous. Masterworks from these now-famous visionaries of photography form the core of a selection of 100 images of Paris from the 1850s to the 1950s drawn from the Art Institute's impressive collection.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
cover art

ISBN:

0300113935
9780300113938

Subject:

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.
Kertész, André, 1894-1985.
Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004.
Brassaï, 1899-1984.
Doisneau, Robert, 1912-1994.
Art Institute of Chicago Photograph collections Exhibitions.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago wystawy.
Photography France Paris History Exhibitions.
Photographie France Paris Histoire Expositions.
Photograph collections
Photography
Fotografie
Paris (France) Pictorial works Exhibitions.
France Paris
Paris
Chicago (Stany Zjednoczone) wystawy od 2001 r.
Paris (Motiv)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
photobooks.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
History
Photobooks
Catalogues d'exposition.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Art Institute of Chicago, exhibitor, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241505
Call No.: BIB 171371
Status: Available

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