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In the zone
Boston Globe - Mar 6, 2010
The photographic romance of EJ Bellocq's Storyville or Brassai's “Paris by Night'' is nowhere to be seen. Romanticizing the Zone would be as much a ... Brens. Vendredi 12 mars à la Médiathèque: les murs en mots et images
LaDépêche.fr - Mar 8, 2010
Brassai avait su comme personne capter le gras luisant du pavé parisien dans nuit glauque des réverbères. Jimenez est un esthète discret des murs gaillacois ...

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Brassai, Paris (Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Editins)

by: Jean-Claude Gautrand
Paris in the years between the two World Wars holds a special attraction for me. I like to visit the period through the detective stories of Georges Simenon and the spy thrillers of Alan Furst. There is no better way to supplement these novels than perusing the Paris photos of Brassai. His photos of late night Paris are some of the most atmospheric images ever produced. What Wegee was to New York City, Brassai is to Paris of the 1930's. No single photographer captured the feel of the era better than Brassai.
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Brassai : Paris By Night

by: Brassai
Brassai was probably more responsible than most for generating the noir genre associated with Paris but that, I think, was a function of his equipment. 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. When looking at his pictures, we must be careful to pass them back through the filter of his time. BUT, that same filter has given us some beautifully composed images.
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The Secret Paris of the '30s

by: Brassai
This was the second time I'd enjoyed this groundbreaking book-length photo essay by one of the pioneer French photojournalists. I'd first seen many of the very famous historic pictures when I was a student working on my BFA in the mid-1960's. I came across the book itself in the early 1970's but I don't think I read the text at the time because I seem to recall it was in French.
Having just finished actually reading this 1976 English translation I purchased, I'm even more impressed than I was long ago when I examined an earlier foreign version.
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Brassai: The Monograph

When Abrams released their long-delayed book on Brassai last December, THE EYE OF PARIS, I was very critical of the entire piece. The images weren't well-printed, the selection was mundane, and the whole thing had an oddly slapped together quality, especially for such a major publisher. Now we have Bullfinch's answer to the recent Brassai gap, and it is a clear success, head and shoulders above this earlier release. After only a relatively cursory look at the book, it is clear that this is what we've been waiting for.
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