Atget

Series: The Creative person

Duration: 30

Genre: Art | Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1966

Creator: Indiana University AudioVisual Center

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Berenice Abbott traces the life and work of French photographer Eugene Atget who began his career in 1898 making photographs and selling them to artists. Abbott describes her meeting with Atget at Man Ray's studio in 1926 and analyzes the photographer's style which broke all the laws of composition. Among the photographs presented are Atget's studies of Parisian shops and antique signs, his series of interiors, and French landscapes., Presents representative photographs by the French photographer, Eugene Atget. Provides explanatory narration by Berenice Abbott, a former protege.

Complete Record: Berenice Abbott traces the life and work of French photographer Eugene Atget who began his career in 1898 making photographs and selling them to artists. Abbott describes her meeting with Atget at Man Ray's studio in 1926 and analyzes the photographer's style which broke all the laws of composition. Among the photographs presented are Atget's studies of Parisian shops and antique signs, his series of interiors, and French landscapes. , Presents representative photographs by the French photographer, Eugene Atget. Provides explanatory narration by Berenice Abbott, a former protege., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.