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In focus : Eugène Atget

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Eugène Atget (1857-1927) spent nearly thirty years photographing details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, and public sculptures in his beloved Paris. Yet before his death, he was practically unknown outside of that city. His genius was first recognized about 1924 by two young Americans living and working in Paris—Man Ray and his studio assistant, Berenice Abbott—who appreciated the elements of contradiction, ambivalence, and ambiguity in Atget's images of Parisian architecture, streets, and parks. Presented in this volume are more than fifty of the Getty Museum's two hundred ninety-five pictures by Atget, with commentary on each image by Gordon Baldwin, associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. "In Focus: Eugène Atget" also contains a chronological overview of his life and an edited transcript of a colloquium on his career, with participants Baldwin; David Featherstone, independent editor and curator; photographer Robbert Flick, professor of art at the University of Southern California; independent scholar David Harris; Weston Naef, curator of photographs, Getty Museum; Francoise Reynaud, curator of photographs at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris; and Michael S. Roth, president, California College of Arts and Crafts.

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Phil Bergerson : shards of America

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A shard is a fragment of broken pottery, often used by archaeologists to reconstruct objects from past civilizations. In "Shards of America", Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American’s towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their presence, offer their services, and pitch their messages, while commercial signs, graffiti, posters, and public notices blanket the surfaces of buildings and public spaces. Paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti, and children’s letters and drawings are laid out as artifacts of a greater whole. Patriotism, consumerism, censorship, nostalgia for a simpler past coupled with a desire for a less complicated present. Touching on all these themes, Bergerson’s quietly ironic but empathetic tone encourages the reader to imagine how our own ordinary world might appear to viewers in a hundred or more years’ time. An essay by photographic historian David Harris illuminates the work.

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Of battle and beauty : Felice Beato's photographs of China

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Accompanying the British Army during its decisive foray into China in 1860, Felice Beato was the first photographer to document a military campaign in progress. He captured not only the immediacy of war, the aftermath of battle, and strategic military positions, but also the sumptuous new Summer Palace before its destruction by the British. His photographic record of the Second Opium War consisted of approximately 100 images, including a number of panoramic views, which survive in the form of private albums orignally compiled by British officers as a record of their victorious campaign. In addition to providing a strikingly beautiful glimpse of nineteenth-century China, these images also reveal how photography functioned as an integral component of British imperialism by shaping perceptions about a distant country and its culture. This publication accompanies a major exhibition of Beato's work in China.

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Eadweard Muybridge et le panorama photographique de San Francisco, 1850-1880

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Ce catalogue d'exposition situe l'oeuvre panoramique de Muybridge par rapport à ses méthodes de travail et dans le contexte plus large de la représentation des villes. Avec des textes de David Harris et Eric Sandweiss.

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Gabor Szilasi, photographies / photographs 1954-1996

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Premier survol de l'oeuvre photographique de Gabor Szilasi, qui couvre aussi bien sa production des années 50 en Hongrie, que ses photographies documentaires du Québec rural et de Montréal et son oeuvre plus récente réalisée à l'aide d'un appareil Polaroïd. Avec une préface de Franck Michel. / This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of this Hungarian-born Québec photographer, from his early pictorialist work in 1950s Hungary through the landcape and social documentary work in rural Quebec and Montreal to recent departures in Polaroid portraiture. Preface by Franck Michel.

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Money matters: a critical look at bank architecture

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A photographic survey of North American bank architecture. Texts by James Borcoman, David Harris, and Susan Wagg.

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Eugène Atget : unknown Paris

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For 30 years, Eugène Atget photographed the historic core of Paris, its buildings and monuments, its ancient streets and civic spaces, its public parks and gardens. With the exception of his earliest photographs, he chose not to represent a particular site by a single, definitive photograph but produced sequences of interrelated images that create a cumulative portrait. A collection of case studies of archetypal urban settings, this book examines Atget’s approach to photography. It features 240 of his photographs—nearly all of which have never been published—assembled to display the integral relationship between the photographer’s working method and his subject matter, revealing the character of le Vieux Paris itself.

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Of battle and beauty : Felice Beato's photographs of China

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Accompanying the British Army during its decisive foray into China in 1860, Felice Beato was the first photographer to document a military campaign in progress. He captured not only the immediacy of war, the aftermath of battle, and strategic military positions, but also the sumptuous new Summer Palace before its destruction by the British. His photographic record of the Second Opium War consisted of approximately 100 images, including a number of panoramic views, which survive in the form of private albums orignally compiled by British officers as a record of their victorious campaign. In addition to providing a strikingly beautiful glimpse of nineteenth-century China, these images also reveal how photography functioned as an integral component of British imperialism by shaping perceptions about a distant country and its culture. This publication accompanies a major exhibition of Beato's work in China.

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Eadweard Muybridge et le panorama photographique de San Francisco, 1850-1880

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Ce catalogue d'exposition situe l'oeuvre panoramique de Muybridge par rapport à ses méthodes de travail et dans le contexte plus large de la représentation des villes. Avec des textes de David Harris et Eric Sandweiss.

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L'or et la pierre : un regard critique sur l'architecture des banques

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Un survol photographique de l'architecture des banques en Amérique du nord. Avec des textes de James Borcoman, David Harris et Susan Wagg.