Atget's Seven Albums

Between 1909 and 1915 Eug_ne Atget produced seven albums filled with photographs of Paris at the height of its belle _poque. This book presents Atget`s albums in full for the first time, edited with the sequencing and repetition that the great photographer intended. In addition, Atget`s pictures are analyzed in an altogether new way: as commercial picture documents produced by a photographer for the artists, archivists, antiquarians, designers, and builders who were his clients. Atget`s Seven Albums is thus many books-a critical edition, a fresh view of Atget`s work, a new kind of history of photography, and a social history of art and of Paris in the early twentieth century.