Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | Pictorial works Photography, Artistic |
---|---|
Named Person: | Brassaï; Brassaï |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brassaï; Sylvie Aubenas; Quentin Bajac |
ISBN: | 9780500544259 0500544255 |
OCLC Number: | 851825534 |
Notes: | "Translated from the French 'Brassaï, le flaneur nocturne' by Ruth Sharman"--Title page verso. |
Description: | 311 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
Contents: | From Paris after dark to The secret Paris of the 30s / Sylvie Aubenas and Quentin Bajac -- Brassaï and Paris by night / Sylvie Aubenas -- The latent images of the night / Quentin Bajac. |
Other Titles: | Brassaï, le flaneur nocturne. Works. Paris nocturne |
Responsibility: | Sylvie Aubenas, Quentin Bajac. |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
Striking. Much of Brassai's photographic career is a seamless rhapsody to Paris after dark . . . all of it, including previously unpublished pieces, celebrated in [this] newly released collection. Striking. " [A] handsome new monograph . . . affording the most comprehensive look yet at Brassai s Parisian oeuvre. " The reproduction of photographs on the printed page has grown increasingly sophisticated, so that at last the blacks are bottomless, the grays are pearly, the lights are warmly alluring. . . . The nocturnal theme gives the book a sense of narrative, as if all of these adventures are unfolding in the course of a single, very long, endlessly surprising night.--Luc Sante Stunning . . . the authors have pieced together this incredible moment in history and give readers a glimpse into the world of one of the most celebrated photographers of the 20th century. Much of Brassai s photographic career is a seamless rhapsody to Paris after dark . . . all of it, including previously unpublished pieces, celebrated in [this] newly released collection." With unprecedented scope, this 312-page tome takes us from glistening rain-soaked streets to illicit houses of pleasure and back again. Brings us face to face with all the pleasure-seeking patrons, pedestrians, street toughs and the homeless in these classic noire photographs. Provides the most complete look at Brassai s nocturnal photographs yet produced. Many will be new to readers. . . . Thoroughly researched and well written, excellently designed and beautifully printed, this is one of the better photographic books published in 2013. . . . Highly recommended." The coffee-table format and the crisp reproduction values do Brassai's incredibly poetic eye and his black-and-white work justice. Definitive proof that the night belongs to the Hungarian-born photographer Brassai. Provides the most complete look at Brassai's nocturnal photographs yet produced. Many will be new to readers. . . . Thoroughly researched and well written, excellently designed and beautifully printed, this is one of the better photographic books published in 2013. . . . Highly recommended. Lush. . . . Essays by Aubenas and Bajac . . . put Brassai's enormous body of work in perspective. Read more...

