Paris as Gameboard

by Susan Laxton and Man Ray

The photographs of Parisfeatured in this book were taken by Eug ne Atget and later assembled into an album by Man Ray. Since 1976, the album has been in the collection of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. The images, though varied, can be grouped into several themes--ragpickers, prostitutes, shop windows, and carnivals. Yet as a group they are enigmatic in their apparent inconsistency and in their attention to marginalized subjects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188491912X
• ISBN13: 9781884919121
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wallach Art Gallery
• Length: 88 Pages