Surveys technical developments in photography, shows the work of famous photographers, and discusses different types and styles of photography

A History of Photography

Arts & Photography

Lemagny, Jean-Claude

Rouillé, André

Photography & Video

Cambridge University Press

Art or Nature: Twentieth Century French Photography

De Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Agnes

Sayag, Alain

Trefoil Publications

The drawings and engravings of the French visionary architects Boullee, Ledoux, and Lequeu lie on the nervous cusp of Neoclassicism and hallucination. The three designed vast, impractical monuments, villas and temples, cathedrals and libraries, incorporating motifs from the classical era informed by the new intellectual freedoms of the Enlightenment. The resulting drawings and plans are like nothing done before or since, and their daring has reverberated through to us in the work of such architects as Speer, Graves, Sant'Elia, and Stirling.

Visionary Architects: Boulee, Ledoux, Lequeu

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hennessey & Ingalls

The works of the great French photographer Eugene Atget (1856-1927) are already internationally known through many books. His role as a highly influential pioneer of photography is less well appreciated. This beautiful new book explores Atget's legacy through his own photographs and those of his successors, names who are themselves legends in the history of the art: Berenice Abbott, Hila and Bernd Becher, Bill Brandt, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Michael Kenna, Lee Friedlander, Clarence John Laughlin, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Rene-Jacques, Bruno Requillard, August Sander. Through a selection of insightful essays and a stunning portfolio of more than 160 photos, Atget's work is juxtaposed with those of later photographers to produce a unique and ground-breaking analysis of a critical strand of photographic history. During his lifetime Atget's work held a fascination for contemporary Surrealist artists such as Man Ray; later Walker Evans drew on Atget's unflinching views of the Paris backstreets to create his own image of urban life, Cubism too found inspiration in the tightly framed spaces of Atget's Parisian streets. Publishing for the first time numerous photographs by Atget - including the newly discovered photos of trees in the park at Saint-Cloud - this book also presents texts by experts in the history of photography.

Atget the Pioneer

Atget, Eugène

Borhan, Pierre

AUBENAS, SYLVIE

Lebart, Luce

Hotel De Sully (Paris, France)

Prestel Pub

Art or Nature: 20th Century French Photography

Saint-Cyr, Agnes de Gouvion

and Sayag, Alain

Trefoil Publications Ltd

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