Brassaï, for the love of Paris
By: [exhibition curator], Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
Contributors: Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Agnès de, author, curator; Radzinowicz, David, translator; Brassaèi, 1899-1984; Hôtel de ville (Paris, France)
Edition: English-language edition.
Publisher: Flammarion
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9782080201683
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: In art; Social life and customs; Exhibitions; Photography; Manners and customs; Artistic Photography; Night photography; Pictorial works
Other titles: For the love of Paris
Work titles: Photographs
Description: "This striking monograph celebrates the beauty of Paris, Brassaï's muse throughout his career. Hungarian-born photographer Brassaï dedicated more than fifty years of his artistic creation to capturing his adoptive city in all its facets. From winsome children playing in the public gardens to an amorous couple on an amusement park attraction, from opera and ballet stars to prostitutes and vagrants, and from cobblestone alleyways to ephemeral graffiti, his photographs embody the very essence of Paris. In an interview shortly before his death in 1984, he explained how Paris had served as an infinite source of inspiration and had reigned as the unifying theme that characterized each phrase of his artistic work"--Amazon.com, viewed April 17, 2014.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in French as Brassaï, pour l'amour de Paris"--Title page verso.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held from November 8, 2013 to March 8, 2014 in the Salle Saint-Jean at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris.

Includes bibliographical references (page 256).

Translated from the French by David Radzinowicz.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Bertrand Delanoë; title: Chronology --; title: Introduction: an artist's life --; title: The Paris of Marcel Proust --; title: The walls of Paris: graffiti --; title: The Paris of the années folles --; title: Picasso's Paris --; title: Eternal Paris: the Paris of the flaneur.