Brassai: Paris by Night

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Brassai: Paris by Night

Brassai: Paris by Night

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I particularly like the quotation from Brassai himself at the beginning – I often feel that nothing is more surreal than reality (especially in these interesting times) and it is always comforting to know that others both now and in the past have felt the same. As I no longer have the older version I cannot check, but I will almost certainly replace it at some point now that I know that it is available once again. The images are matte and not particularly contrasty, and I don't think they are shown to their full advantage. Brassaï moved in the same circles as the surrealists–he met Picasso in 1932, and worked on Le Minotaure, the famous surrealist review. Mirrors on either side of the couple’s well-coiffed heads reflect their loving looks and blur the surrounding restaurant.

The deserted streets could be a factor of the five minute exposure while the close up shots of the street workers, of all occupations would have been necessary because of the lack of electronic flash.

The tiny versions at the back of the book in which each scene is identified are so much sharper with higher contrast than the photographs in the body of the book. One of the most important and influential photographers of the twentieth century, Brassai (1899-1984) moved to Paris from Hungary in 1924.

Their nocturnal surroundings fascinated the artist, whose photographs are as much an exploration of the technical challenge of portraying darkness as portraits of a hauntingly dramatic night world. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. First American edition: the original edition of Paris by Night, published as Paris de Nuit in 1933, contained 64 reproductions of photographs by Brassai, printed in heliogravure. The introduction, by Paul Morand, is elegant and does a good job of describing what Paris was like at that time.Published for the first time in 1933 and originally designed by Brassaï himself, this is a high-quality reproduction of his legendary first book of photographs.



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