Paris by Night

by Brassai

Photographs: Brassai

Text: Paul Morand

Publisher: Pantheon Books

90 pages

Pictures: 62

Year: 1987

ISBN: 0394563271

Price: 125 €

Comments: Hardcover with slip case. 32 x 28 cm. Very good condition.

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. The city of Paris bewitched Brassaï. Working as a journalist by day, by night he roamed the streets of the capital and visited its bistros, sharing moments in the lives of the prostitutes and peddlers, down-and-outs, and illicit lovers who lived on the margins of society. 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. With an introduction by Paul Morand

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