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| Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott |
Looking for a film on Atget, I was fortunate to learn about Berenice Abbott, a young American who made her way to Paris in the 1920s and fell in with Man Ray as an assistant. Man Ray was a neighbor and admirer of Atget, and through her employer Abbott made contact with the city's photographic chronicler, making the only known portraits of Atget just days before his death.
Abbott returned to US just before the Wall Street crash of 1929 and inspired by Atget began work on her own archive of the depression-era NY of the 1930's. She also managed to purchase what was left of Atget's image collection (that wasn't owned by the French government), arranged for a volume of photos to be published in the US and France, and wrote and published her own book on Atget in the 1960s. She sold her collection to it's current owner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I was unaware that Atget had done a study of prostitutes and wonder if I might find the confidence to do the same. It would make a wonderful study for Dubai. I have at least a couple of massage parlors in my neighborhood. Do I have the courage to ask?
Abbott returned to US just before the Wall Street crash of 1929 and inspired by Atget began work on her own archive of the depression-era NY of the 1930's. She also managed to purchase what was left of Atget's image collection (that wasn't owned by the French government), arranged for a volume of photos to be published in the US and France, and wrote and published her own book on Atget in the 1960s. She sold her collection to it's current owner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I was unaware that Atget had done a study of prostitutes and wonder if I might find the confidence to do the same. It would make a wonderful study for Dubai. I have at least a couple of massage parlors in my neighborhood. Do I have the courage to ask?
Sit Up Straight Production
Michael House, director
2008
52 minutes
52 minutes
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| Atget's Paris, Abbott's NY # |
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