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New York: The Museum of Modern Art & Callaway, 2000. 4to large hardcover with fine jacket. 224 pages, richly illustrated full-page. Fine, clean copy
First edition thus. Classic Atget photobook curated by Szarkowski. Much recommended
John Szarkowski — ATGET
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260,00 DKK“Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, Rome, but also Amager, Aalborg and Aarhus.
The text reminiscences from the different cities tell about the development in the world and its cityscapes, where everything is always temporary and changing. They also testify to gentrification, for example in the inner city of Rome. The flagship stores of modern capitalism’s corporate stores have taken over retail space that used to offer ordinary necessities of life instead of Prada and Gucci. But in some places, the facades of the former shops remain as traces of a bygone everyday life.
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