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ISBN 978-0-89236-998-0

ISBN 978-0-89236-784-9

In Focus: Eugène Atget for the book worm This work is the catalogueGordon Baldwin Eugne Atget (18571927) 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 in about 1924 by two young Americans living and working in ParisMan Ray and his studio assistant, Berenice Abbottwho appreciated the elements of contradiction,