Brassai: Paris by Night Rizzoli hautement détaillées et assidûment élaborées

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sleeping on the streets and often propelled to keep moving by fear as much as curiosity

Alfred Hitchcock

In an interesting reversal of roles

Brassai: Paris by Night Rizzoli hautement détaillées et assidûment élaboréesThis essential reference in the history of urban photographycompiled by Brassa himself and first published in 1933has been meticulously reproduced in a new edition, with tinted page edges. The city of Paris bewitched Hungarian born Brassa. Working as a journalist by day in the early 1930s, he roamed the streets of the capital by night, visiting its bistros and sharing moments in the lives of avant garde artists, prostitutes, peddlers, down and outs,