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...knew turn-of-the-century Paris better than Photographer Eugene Atget. He trudged its boulevards and back alleys, aiming his antique box camera at the sidewalks, the rooftops, the chestnut trees, the shop windows and the people. Passers-by suspected him of being a lunatic or even a spy. Artier photographers ridiculed him as a crackpot and tasteless hack. Among the few to appreciate his work as time went by was U.S. Photographer Berenice Abbott...
Berenice Abbott was one of the first U. S. photographers to conclude that the art of the camera consists in making visual records. This is a long-term point of view, involving the fact that photographs like Eugene Atget's of Paris become poignant to most people only gradually, as years pass and streets vanish. Berenice Abbott from Springfield, Ohio, learned photography in Paris in the darkroom of Stylist Man Ray. Returning to Manhattan in 1929, she was overwhelmed with a desire to document "the whole crazy city...
...younger generation of photographers had come along who believed that when Steichen turned his back on painting he had not turned far enough. They saw the camera as essentially a documenter of physical reality. They admired Matthew Brady's diamond-clear, sober pictures of the Civil War, Eugene Atget's photographs of Paris in the early 1900s a great deal more than Steichen's highly lit personalities in Vanity Fair. Steichen's love of lighting effects and studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice Abbott. Edward Weston, Paul Strand. Ralph...
...taken by Brady, several portraits of Jules Verno by Carjet, together with the portrait work done in 1880 by Nadar. Outstanding in the field of local color photographs are the Paris scenes of 1890 that will be displayed during this period. Those were taken by the eminent Parisian photographer, Atget...
Famous photographers whose works are on view include Eugene Atget, Anton Bruehl, Tina Modotti, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Ralph Steiner, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston...