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"He was an urbanist historian, a Balzac of the camera, from whose work we can weave a large tapestry of French civilization." -Berenice Abbott FIRST EDITIONS of all four volumes of the definitive collection of Atget's work. Each volume profusely illustrated with reproductions of Atget's evocative photographs of France. Text by John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg. Volume I SIGNED and inscribed by Szarkowski. Volume I, Old France; Volume
II, The Art of Old Paris; Volume III, The Ancien Regime; and Volume IV,
Modern Times. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1981: 1982: 1983:
1985. Folios, original gilt-lettered maroon cloth; original
photo-pictorial dust jackets. A beautiful set in fine condition. $1300.
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