The Work of Atget - Four Volume Set Volume I: Old France; Volume II: the Art of Old Paris; Volume III: the Ancien Regime; Volume IV: Modern Times

EB: Museum of Modern Art. Very Good. 1981. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985. Condition: Vol. I: Old France. 177 pgs. Vol. II: The Art of Old Paris. 190 pgs. Vol. III: The Ancient Régime. 185 pgs. Vol. IV: Modern Times. 182 pgs. Illustrated throughout. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "In 1968 The Museum of Modern Art acquired a collection of some five thousand prints and plates which the American photographer Berenice Abbott had purchased from Atget's estate in 1928. For the past twelve years, the Museum's Department of Photography has carried on the work first of organizing the collection to the point where its contents became available for analysis and study, then of attempting the reconstruction of both Atget's own complex record system and the chronology of his production. For the first time it is now possible to date with reasonable accuracy almost all of Atget's work and to speculate, with objective support, as to the function that individual pictures were meant to serve. The four volumes in this series correspond to the author's sense of the principal issues, defined in terms of subject matter, that are presented in Atget's work. The illustrations are printed with three offset impressions, to insure the utmost fidelity to the original photographs. New prints have been made by the historically appropriate albumen process from Atget plates for which no satisfactory print existed." EB .