{"title":"Eugène Atget","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"eugene-atget-book-eugne-atget-9780893817503","title":"Eugene Atget","description":"\u003cp\u003eGary Panter began imagining \u003ci\u003eDal Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e, a future Mars that is terraformed by Texan and Japanese workers, as far back as 1972, appropriating a friend's idea about cultural and temporal collision (The Dal is short for Dallas).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy Texan and Japanese? Panter says, Because they are trapped in Texas, Texans are self-mythologizing. Because I was trapped in Texas at the time, I needed to believe that the broken tractor out back was a car of the future. Japanese, I'll say, because of the exotic far-awayness of Japan from Texas, and because of the Japanese monster movies and woodblock prints that reached out to me in Texas. Japanese monster movies are part of the fabric of Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1983, Panter finally got a chance to fully explore this world, and share it with an audience, when the \u003ci\u003eL.A. Reader\u003c\/i\u003e published the first 63 strips. A few years later, the Japanese reggae magazine \u003ci\u003eRiddim\u003c\/i\u003e picked up the strip, and Panter continued the saga of \u003ci\u003eDal Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e in monthly installments for over a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut none of these conceptual descriptions will prepare the reader for the confounding visual and verbal richness of \u003ci\u003eDal Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e, as Panter's famous ratty line collides and colludes with near-Joycean wordplay, veering from more or less intelligible jokes to dizzying non-sequiturs to surreal eruptions that can engulf the entire panel in scribbles. One doesn't read \u003ci\u003eDal Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e; one is absorbed into it and spit out the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49768625438993,"sku":"GOR001457953","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50110811603217,"sku":"CIN0893817503G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50532279943441,"sku":"GOR009096379","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50590471094545,"sku":"CIN0893817503VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0893817503.jpg?v=1750884224"},{"product_id":"atget-book-ladd-jeffrey-9781935004004","title":"Atget","description":"Errata Editions' \u003ci\u003eBooks on Books\u003c\/i\u003e series is an ongoing publishing project dedicated to making rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts. These are not reprints or facsimiles but complete studies of the original books. Each volume in the series presents the entire content, page for page, of an original master bookwork which, up until now, has been too rare or expensive for most to experience. Through a mix of classic and contemporary titles, this series spans the breadth of photographic practice as it has appeared on the printed page and allows further study of the creation and meanings of these great works of art. Each volume in the series contains illustrations of every page in the original photobook, a new essay by an established writer on photography, production notes about the creation of the original edition and biographical and bibliographical information about each artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtget: Photographe de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect starting point for this invaluable new series on great photography books. Published in 1930, three years after Atget's death, it is now regarded as a classic that has influenced many generations of artists, including Berenice Abbott and Walker Evans. \u003ci\u003eBooks on Books 1\u003c\/i\u003e reproduces all 96 collotype plates from the original, as well as a translation of the original Pierre Mac Orlan text on Eugene Atget's remarkable documentation of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century. Noted author and lecturer David Campany contributes a contemporary essay called Atget's Intelligent Documents written for this volume.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331536519441,"sku":"CIN193500400XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331705143569,"sku":"CIN193500400XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193500400X.jpg?v=1751156363"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-eugne-atget.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}