Brassaï

"Read this book if you want to understand me."—Pablo Picasso Conversations with Picasso offers a remarkable vision of both Picasso and the entire artistic and intellectual milieu of wartime Paris, a vision provided by the gifted photographer and prolific author who spent the early portion of the 1940s photographing Picasso's work. Brassaï carefully and affectionately records each of his meetings and appointments with the great artist, building along the way a work of remarkable depth, intimate perspective, and great importance to anyone who truly wishes to understand Picasso and his world.

Conversations with Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Gilberte Brassai

Edición aumentada y corregida de la primera en español de 1966. Con una poderosa narrativa a la que acompaña 53 forografías tomadas a lo largo de casi 30 años, Brassaï crea un revelador perfil de Picasso y, al mismo tiempo, construye una emocionante crónica del arte en la que se desfilan extraordinarios personajes como Dalí, Matisse, Camus, Sartre y Cocteau. "Si alguien quiere entenderme -dice Picasso-, debe leer este libro".

Conversaciones con Picasso

Paul Morand

A new edition of the classic originally published in 1932 brings together sixty images of the City of Light's back alleys, metro stations, bistros, and people.

Paris by Night

Henry Miller

Michael Paduano

Lucien d'Azay

Gérald Robitaille

- Retour à l'édition originale en langue anglaise avec une trentaine de photos de Brassaï. Première fois que le livre sort ainsi en France. - Un des titres les plus emblématiques d'Henry Miller. - Ce roman fut trois fois adapté au cinéma. - Tant il est emblématique, le titre est devenu une expression courante. L'intrigue suit Joey, un expatrié américain autour de la place de Clichy. Le livre est divisé en deux parties.
Dans le premier, Joey et son colocataire tout aussi démuni, Carl, recherchent de la nourriture et naviguent dans des relations avec diverses femmes. Principalement, Joey avec Nys, une prostituée qu'il rencontre au Café Wepler non loin de Montmartre, et Carl avec Colette, une fugueuse de quinze ans qui emménage avec eux avant d'être finalement récupérée par ses parents. La seconde partie, "Mara-Marignan", décrit l'histoire d'amour volatile de Carl avec Eliane mariée, et la relation de Joey avec Mara, une prostituée qu'il rencontre sur les Champs-Elysées.
Mara rappelle à Joey une ancienne amante, Christine, une femme mariée, qu'il regrette de ne pas avoir épousée. Cela conduit au souvenir d'une soirée que lui et Carl ont passée chez eux avec une acrobate nommée Corinne et une Danoise nommée Christine. Les quatre d'entre eux ont une orgie spontanée, ce qui bouleverse Christine, qui se moque des trois autres. De Miller, Anaïs Nin écrivait que son écriture était "flamboyante, torrentielle, chaotique, rusée et dangereuse ".

Jours tranquilles à Clichy

Conversations avec Picasso

An affordable and attractive pocket volume of celebrated photographer Brassaï’s most iconic photographs of Paris. Brassaï’s photographs embody the very essence of Paris, from winsome children playing in Paris’s public gardens to amorous couples on amusement park attractions, from opera and ballet stars to prostitutes and vagabonds, from cobblestone alleyways to ephemeral graffiti. Shortly before his death in 1984, Brassaï described how the city of Paris had served as an infinite source of inspiration for him—a unifying theme that characterized each phase of his artistic oeuvre and lay at the very heart of his work. Through 120 photographs, this volume presents the diverse facets of Brassaï’s beloved Paris: from the nostalgic city that he discovered as a child in the 1900s to the fleeting and ever-changing graffiti on the city’s walls; from the revelers in the Bohemian bars and clubs of the Années Folles to his reciprocal artistic exchange with Picasso in their portrayals of 1930s Paris; and finally to Brassaï’s vision of an eternal Paris, in which he captured everyday Parisians at leisure and elevated the familiar to the sublime.

Paris Brassaï

A collection of photographs with commentary, by the renowned artist Brassai, documenting the sordid world of Paris brothels, opium dens, underworld taverns, and other hidden places.

The Secret Paris of the 30's

Nicknamed the "Eye of Paris" by Henry Miller, Brassaï 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 Brassaï's life and artistic development in Paris and Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s. "[Brassaï] is probably the only photographer—at least in France—to have acquired such a vast audience and mastered his material to such a degree that he can express himself with a flexibility and apparent ease that is almost literary in its nature."—Jean Gallien, Photo-Monde "The letters that Brassaï wrote to his parents between 1920 and 1940 chronicle the sometimes painful stages by which this gifted man hauled himself from penury to celebrity."—Peter Hamilton, Times Literary Supplement "In these proud, protective, occasionally conscience-stricken missives, the young man full of eager dreams emerges as one of the century's pioneering photographers, revered for his lushly atmospheric portraits of Paris after dark."—Elle "A fascinating insight into how a bright individual slowly found his calling."—Christine Schwartz Hartley, New York Times Book Review

Letters to My Parents

Brassai

Richard Howard

Brassai wrote: "In his battle against Time, that enemy of our precarious existence, ever on the offensive though never openly so, it was in photography, also born of an age-old longing to halt the moment, to wrest it from the flux of 'duree' in order to 'fix' it forever in a semblance of eternity, that Proust found his best ally." He quoted Proust in his own writing, and from the annotated books in his library, we know that he spent a lifetime studying and dissecting Proust's prose, often line by line.".

Proust in the Power of Photography

Camera in Paris

Vintage Photographs

Brassaï, the Eye of Paris

"no Ordinary Eyes"

Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassaï created arresting images of the city's dramatic nocturnal landscape.The back alleys, metro stations, and bistros he photographed are at turns hauntingly empty or peopled by prostitutes, laborers, thugs, and lovers.'Paris by Night', first published in French in 1932, collected sixty of these images, which have since become photographic icons.This new edition brings one of Brassaï's finest works back into print. 'Paris by Night' is a stunning portrait of nighttime in the City of Light, as captured by its most articulate observer.

The Artists of My Life

Kim Sichel

André Kertész

Man Ray

Germaine Krull

Brassaï, André Kertész, Germaine Krull and Man Ray

Photographs of Paris, 1928-1934

Jean-Claude Gautrand

Harlots, hoodlums, and heathens in Brassaï's Paris "Brassaï is a living eye," wrote Henry Miller of the Hungarian-born artist who adopted Paris after World War I and became one of its most celebrated photographers. Originally a painter before he moved on to writing, sculpture, cinema and, most famously, photography, Brassaï (1899-1984) was a member of Paris's cultural elite, counting Miller, Picasso, Sartre, Camus, and Cocteau, among his friends. Camera in hand, he scoured the streets and bars of Paris, unabashedly capturing the city's inhabitants in their natural habitats. Prostitutes, hoodlums, and other 'marginal' characters were the most famous heroes of Brassaï's moody, gritty photographs taken often by night. Including an extensive selection of Brassaï's finest photographs and an essay describing his life and work, this book explores the world of Brassaï in thematic chapters: Minotaure magazine, Paris at Night, Secret Paris, Day Visions, Artists of My Life, and Graffiti and Transmutations.

Brassai's Universal Art. Brassai, Der Vielseitige. Brassai L' Universel. 25 Jahre TASCHEN

Brassai Paris 1899-1984

Gathers portraits of writers, artists, travelers, and children as well as photographs of studios, street scenes, gardens, and night scenes, and briefly discusses the artist's work

Brassai was perhaps one of the most influential 20th-century photographers, reknowned for his portraits of Paris' prostitutes. Along with duotone and four-colour reproductions of Brassai's work, this book includes an interview with his widow, and essays on his long and glorious career.

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