Brassaï, Paris

Brassaï, Paris
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
Author: Jean Claude Gautrand
Publisher: Taschen
Publication Date: 2008
Print Length: 192 pages

This volume contains some pictures from all or at least most of Brassai's books including LES SCULPTURES DE PICASSO, GRAFFITI, PICASSO & CO., HENRY MILLER: GRANDEUR NATURE and THE ARTISTS OF MY LIFE.

"Brassaï is a living eye," wrote Henry Miller of the Hungarian–born artist who adopted Paris after World War I and became one of its most celebrated photographers. Originally a painter before he moved on to writing, sculpture, cinema and, most famously, photography, Brassaï (1899-1984) was a member of Paris’s cultural elite, counting Miller, Picasso, Sartre, Camus, and Cocteau, among his friends. Camera in hand, he scoured the streets and bars of Paris, unabashedly capturing the city’s inhabitants in their natural habitats. Prostitutes, hoodlums, and other ‘marginal’ characters were the most famous heroes of Brassaï’s moody, gritty photographs taken often by night. Including an extensive selection of Brassaï’s finest photographs and an essay describing his life and work, this book explores the world of Brassaï in thematic chapters: Minotaure magazine, Paris at Night, Secret Paris, Day Visions, Artists of My Life, and Graffiti and Transmutations.

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Brassaï: Paris by Night

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Goerge Brassaï, Paul Morand

 

Brassaï in America

2011 - Rizzoli

George Brassaï, Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

 

Conversations with Picasso

2002 - University of Chicago Press

George Brassaï

 

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