A Photo Lecture
Revisiting Eugène Atget’s Paris
Rauschenberg walked around Paris "in Atget's shoes" re-photographing many of his predecessor's original locations. If a trip to the City of Light is not in your immediate future, this lecture is the next best thing.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Beyond the Iconic: Contemporary Photographs of Paris" in the Central Library's Getty Gallery March 1 – June 1, 2008.
Christopher Rauschenberg was born in New York in 1951 and has practiced photographic art since 1957. He has photographed in 26 countries and has had 83 solo shows in 6 countries. Available monographs of his work include three books and a deck of cards. He is a co-founder and co-director of Blue Sky Gallery (an internationally respected non-profit photography gallery www.BlueSkyGallery.org) where, over the last 30 years, he has co-curated and co-produced 643 solo exhibitions and 46 group shows. He has recently completed two large projects. In one, he has organized a group of a dozen artists who joined him in a nine year long systematic photographic exploration and documentation of the city of Portland and then immediately organized a second group of artists for a second nine year cycle (www.PortlandGridProject.com) In the other, he took three trips to Paris and re-photographed 500 of the images made of that city by Eugène Atget between 1890 and 1927. A book of his Atget Project is available from Princeton Architectural Press.
