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Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassa created arresting images of the city's dramatic nocturnal landscape. First published in French in 1932, this new edition brings one of Brassa's finest works back into print. 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" is a stunning portrait of nighttime in the City of Light, as captured by its most articulate observer. 62 photos.

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Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassa created arresting images of the city's dramatic nocturnal landscape. First published in French in 1932, this new edition brings one of Brassa's finest works back into print. 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" is a stunning portrait of nighttime in the City of Light, as captured by its most articulate observer. 62 photos.

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This Hungarian photographer and sculptor was born as Gyula Halász, but he is known throughout the world as Brassaï (1899-1984). His nocturnal shots of Parisian street life in the early thirties have long been regarded as his finest and signature work. This deluxe edition collects 62 photographs that recreate a City of Lights that no longer exists.

— Michelle Marozik

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9782080200990
  • Publisher: Rizzoli
  • Publication date: 4/3/2012
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 96
  • Sales rank: 307,228
  • Product dimensions: 10.98 (w) x 12.42 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet the Author

One of the most important and influential photographers of the twentieth century, Brassai (1899-1984) moved to Paris from Hungary in 1924. He is best known for chronicling the city in the 1930s and for his portraits of artists such as Picasso and Matisse, and writers including Henry Miller. His fifty-year artistic career also encompassed drawing, sculpture, writing, and filmmaking.

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Brassai: Paris by Night

By Brassai

Bulfinch Press

Copyright © 1987 Flammarion, Paris
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0-821-22738-6

Chapter One

NIGHT is not the negative of day; black surfaces and white are not merely transposed, as on a photographic plate, but another picture altogether emerges at nightfall. At that hour a twilight world comes into being, a world of shifting forms, of false perspectives, phantom planes. There is something eerie, even disconcerting, about the process-though the obvious epithet "diabolical" does not necessarily apply. Paris, metropolis of the mind and city of light, buoyant as the galleon in full sail that is her emblem, can no more than other capitals escape the dark contagion. Indeed, a furtive menace pervades the Paris night; its darkness teems with unseen presences, the restless souls of the Parisians escaping through sleep-bound lips. The dangers I refer to are not those which a romantic tradition has innocently fostered-from the legend of the Champs-Elysees caverns (in the Mysteres de Paris) to the mild terrors of a visit to the Lapin Agile; what I am thinking of is the more authentic menace of the subconscious mind of the French race, the night-side of their daytime perspicacity, all the more copious for being repressed beneath apparent equilibrium. For the Frenchman, so conservative by day, goes revolutionary in his dreams. He stands for civilization at its most lucid and alert; only in sleep does he set his questing fancy free to stray in the dim hinterlands of the Unknown. That is why Paris can be uncannier at night than any "haunted woodland", more alarming than the underworlds of London, Chicago or Berlin, written up ad nauseam by sensation-mongers. Julian Green, in "Derelicts", has rendered with consummate skill his vision of the Paris night as a tremendous shipwreck, where all things suffer a sea-change; as in the passage where he leads his characters to the banks of the Seine, there to read their destiny writ in water.

"In all great cities there are zones which reveal their true character only after dusk. By day they wear a mask, assume a look of amiable good-fellowship that hoodwinks even the astute. All that is needed is a respectably dressed woman showing her little boy the Seine, or four workmen, spade in hand, shovelling a heap of gravel; under these conditions quayside, river-bank and wharves all look smiling and sedate. But, when the nightmists rise, such places wake to life that is a parody of death; the smiling banks turn livid, dark surfaces grow pale and flicker with funereal gleams, coming with evil glee into their own again. It is the street-lamp that works the transformation. Under the first ray of this nocturnal sun, the nightscape dons its panoply of shadows and a malefic alchemy transmutes the texture of the visible world. The smooth, sleek trunks of the plane-trees seem suddenly transformed to leprous stone, the cobbled pavement grows darkly mottled like the skin of a drowned man, even the river-water burns with a metallic sheen. There is nothing that does not take on a life-forsaken aspect, sloughing off the honest form it had by daylight. Here nature is at her strangest; nothing breathes and nothing grows, yet all her features writhe in odd grimaces-it is as if the stage were set in preparation for some furtive drama. Under the broken gleams of the lamplight buffeted by the wind, amid the odour of death that hovers on the water, this dark domain of silence and the rats is hospitable only to the thief counting his plunder, apt for the humble orgies of the poor."

For all the seeming realism of this description, it evokes, most notably, the supernormal fears that haunt the modern mind, and, after reading it, I have little relish for a lonely walk by night in Paris. In any case, I am only too prone to find disjecta membra of my former self scattered amongst the various districts of this city where I was born; and, as I do not wish to take my readers on a sentimental journey and to indulge in one of those stock-takings of heart and body which seem incumbent on us once a year at least-when spring begins-I will escort you, rather, to the safe precincts of the city lights. Better avoid the haunts of solitude and shadow, peopled with a cloud of phantoms, and cultivate our neighbours' company-for, after all, what raison d'etre has the crowded life of cities if not its opportunity for human contacts?

(Continues...)


Excerpted from Brassai: Paris by Night by Brassai Copyright © 1987 by Flammarion, Paris. Excerpted by permission.
All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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