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EUGÈNE ATGET
Atget: photographe de Paris -- Atget: Photographer of Paris. Paris: Henri Jonquières, 1930. Quarto (268 x 208mm). 96 black and white photographs. Printed captions pasted to inside back cover, as issued. Original burgundy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, original cardboard slipcase (cloth spine slightly dulled, slipcase split along one edge, light wear).
FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL CARDBOARD SLIPCASE. 'An excellent selection, containing many wonderful pictures and giving exquisite visual pleasure' (The Photobook). Also published simultaneously in Leipzig and New York. The Book of 101 Books, pp. 60-1 ('Atget's photographs have come to be seen by many as the beginning of modern photography'); The Open Book, pp.90-1; The Photobook, vol. I, p.127; Regards à travers le livre 14.
Atget: photographe de Paris -- Atget: Photographer of Paris. Paris: Henri Jonquières, 1930. Quarto (268 x 208mm). 96 black and white photographs. Printed captions pasted to inside back cover, as issued. Original burgundy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, original cardboard slipcase (cloth spine slightly dulled, slipcase split along one edge, light wear).
FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL CARDBOARD SLIPCASE. 'An excellent selection, containing many wonderful pictures and giving exquisite visual pleasure' (The Photobook). Also published simultaneously in Leipzig and New York. The Book of 101 Books, pp. 60-1 ('Atget's photographs have come to be seen by many as the beginning of modern photography'); The Open Book, pp.90-1; The Photobook, vol. I, p.127; Regards à travers le livre 14.
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