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Nicknamed the "Eye of Paris" by Henry Miller, Brassai was one of the great European photographers of the twentieth century. This volume of letters and photographs, many published for the first time, chronicles the fascinating early years of Brassai's life and artistic development in Paris and Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s.
The amazing letters Brassai wrote to his parents during his years as a student and struggling artist in Paris and Berlin are published here in English for the first time. Just as Brassai captured in his photographs the texture, mood, and mystery of 1930s Paris, so too in his letters, through his candid, detailed, and vivid descriptions, he conveys in an immediate and forceful way what it was like to live in that world.
An important, revealing work for everyone interested in Brassai and the history of photography, this collection will fascinate anyone who wants a firsthand account of Berlin and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Correspondence, Social life and customs, Exhibitions, Portrait photography, Night photography, Photography, Artistic, Photographers, Artistic Photography, Photography, Pictorial works, Design styles: from c 1900 -, Individual photographers, Photo Techniques, Photographie artistique, Photographie, Ouvrages illustrés, Brassai, 1899-1984, Photography, exhibitions, Photographers, correspondencePeople
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Brassaï: the monograph
2000, Little, Brown and Company
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- 1st U.S. ed.
0821226681 9780821226681
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Brassai: letters to my parents
1997, University of Chicago Press
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0226071464 9780226071466
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Translated from the French.
Originally published by Centre Pompidou, 2000.
"This edition published on the occasion of the exhibition Brassaï: the soul of Paris, 22 February-13 May 2001."
Includes bibliographical references.
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