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Photographer captures Afghanistan graffiti Toronto Star,  Canada - Nov 15, 2008 In part, he was inspired by 20th century photographic greats like Aaron Siskind and Brassai. But mostly, Palu was moved to record the unfiltered voices of ...

Cezanne's influence spanned continents The Daily Yomiuri, Japan - Nov 20, 2008 Pablo Picasso said it all in a letter to the photographer Brassai in 1943. "Cezanne was my only teacher! You can tell that I saw his pictures--I studied his ...

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Brassai, Paris (Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Editins)

by: Jean-Claude Gautrand
Brassaï is one of those indispensable artists, which rarely come along every 50 years or so. Photographer, writer, painter, film maker, he recorded for us what must have been the most fruitful era for art, in the most fruitful place for art: Paris. He knew everyone from the dadaists to the surrealists and the cubists. He formed an uneasy friendship with Picasso, which resulted on his book My Conversations With Picasso, a first hand account of the comings and goings in the artist's life and studio, that I highly recommend.

Brassai : Paris By Night

by: Brassai
is a pleasure to learn how to use available light with the craftmanship of Brassai's pictures of Paris by night with all the life of those years !!

The Secret Paris of the 30's

by: Brassai
Divided into 19 sections, each including a short essay on one subject (ex.: The Street Fair) with accompanying illustrations. Photographs include full-page printed to the edge of the paper (unfortunately also to the spine of the book), full-page with border, half and quarter page. Copyrights on most of the the photographs, listed in an appendix, range from 1931-33, a few are 1934.

Most of the 150 photographs are very good duotone reproductions, a few are less than great. My copy is a softcover, publ.

Proust in the Power Photography

by: Brassai, Richard Howard
This short book was written by the great European photographer Brassai not long before his death in 1982. It has only now found its way into print in English, and what a gem it is. Beautifully translated by Richard Howard and featuring a gorgeous design, this is one of the best and most accessible books I've ever read about Proust. One can tell that Brassai had a great love for Proust's work--and he richly explores the writer's life in France in the early 20th century and his fascination with the new art of photography.

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