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| 【Recommended books】Paris: Eugene Atget: 1857-1927 & Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget’s Paris To have pinpointed this new stage constitutes the incomparable significance of Atget, who, around 1900, took photographs of deserted Paris streets. (十九世紀，阿特傑在空曠巴黎街頭拍攝的相片有著非凡的重要性，正是因為他攝住了這個演進的新局面。) ——Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) 延續 Brassai 的攝影集， Eugene Atget 毫無疑問地是另一位值得推崇的攝影大師。 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Atget Eugène Atget (February 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his work only gained wide attention after his death. 姑且就讓我貿然地從 Taschen 出版的 Paris: Eugene Atget: 1857-1927 以及 Christopher Rauschenberg 所寫的 Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget’s Paris 這兩本書，摘要些許書訊來做個介紹吧！ 從以下幾則短評可知 Taschen 出版的這本 Eugene Atget 攝影集同之前介紹的 Brassai 攝影集維持其價廉物美的高 C/P 值： This new collection of Atget’s photographs shows his systematic, beautifully detailed work in all its splendor.” -- Picture Magazine, January 2001 “It delivers a great deal of information at a budget price.” -- New York Times, 12/3/00 “This is a book that creates nostalgia for the Paris that was.” -- Black & White Magazine, February 2001 http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F011480401 Paris: Eugene Atget: 1857-1927 作者：Krase, Andreas/ Adam, Hans Christian (EDT)/ Atget, Eugene (PHT) 出版社：Taschen America Llc 出版日期：2008年08月22日 語言：英文 ISBN：9783836504713 裝訂：精裝 內容簡介 Eugene Atget roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-the-century Old Paris down to the very smallest details. His skilled, wonderfully atmospheric photos of Paris’s parks, buildings, streets, store windows, prostitutes, workers, and even door handles are a joy to behold. 教堂、樓房、精品店櫥窗、街頭攤販、阻街女郎…每張照片充滿著老巴黎 (Vieux Paris) 的懷舊氣氛，如同 Atget 在 1920 年 11 月寫給新上任的美術學院院長 Paul Léon 的一封信，毫不猶豫地宣稱自己已經完成的豐功偉業：「龐大的藝術記錄工作今天已經結束了。可以說，我現在擁有了整個舊巴黎。」 "For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates, 18'' x 24'' format, artistic documents of the beautiful civic architecture of the sixteenth to the nineteenth century: the old hotels, historic or curious houses, beautiful facades, beautiful doors, beautiful woodwork, door knockers, old fountains, stairways de style (wood and wrought iron), the interiors of all the churches of Paris. This vast artistic and documentary collection is today complete. I could say that I possess all of Vieux Paris."
另一本書的書名：Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget’s Paris，總讓我想起波特萊爾的《天鵝》(Le cygnet ) 這首詩： Paris change ! mais rien dans ma mélancolie N'a bougé ! palais neufs, échafaudages, blocs, Vieux faubourgs, tout pour moi devient allégorie, Et mes chers souvenirs sont plus lourds que des rocs. 巴黎變了！我的悒鬱沒變！ 新的王宮，鷹架，建材， 舊郊區的一切對我都成了寓喻， 我珍貴回憶比岩石來得重。 作者 Christopher Rauschenberg 在 1997-1998 花了一年的時間前後 3 次到巴黎尋找 Atget 在 1888 至 1927 年間的足跡舊地重遊 (revisiting)，他一共拍了 500 張照片而完成了書裡頭 76 組新舊時空對峙的照片： http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F011237838 Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget’s Paris 作者：Rauschenberg, Christopher/ Bernier, Rosamond (CON)/ Nordstrom, Alison (CON)/ Worswick, Clark (CON) 出版社：Chronicle Books Llc 出版日期：2007年10月04日 語言：英文 ISBN：1568986807 裝訂：精裝 內容簡介 Between 1888 and 1927 Eugene Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environs, capturing in thousands of photographs the city’s parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. His images preserved the vanishing architecture of the ancient regime as Paris grew into a modern capital and established Atget as one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most revered photographers. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the late ’90s revisiting and rephotographing many of Atget’s same locations. Paris Changing features seventy-four pairs of images beautifully reproduced in duotone. By meticulously replicating the emotional as well as aesthetic qualities of Atget’s images, Rauschenberg vividly captures both the changes the city has undergone and its enduring beauty. His work is both an homage to his predecessor and an artistic study of Paris in its own right. Each site is indicated on a map of the city, inviting readers to follow in the steps of Atget and Rauschenberg themselves. Essays by Clark Worswick and Alison Nordstrom give insight into Atget’s life and situate Rauschenberg’s work in the context of other rephotography projects. The book concludes with an epilogue by Rosamond Bernier as well as a portfolio of other images of contemporary Paris by Rauschenberg. If a trip to the city of lights is not in your immediate future, this luscious portrait of Paris then and now is definitely the next best thing. Christopher Rauschenberg 在這本書序言裡的最後一段提到： “However, among all the other Parises that coexist so thickly in one amazing metropolis, Atget’s Paris is still definitely and hauntingly there.” 我想這也正是我推介這位攝影大師的主要原因吧！ Atget 更多的作品在這裡： http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=229 |
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