Brassai (Photofile); THAMES & HUDSON, 1990

No photographer is more closely associated with a city than Brassaп (1899–1984) is with Paris. From the moment he moved there in 1924, he devoted his life and art to immortalizing his adopted city – capturing the street life by day, the cafйs and the Seine by night. A friend of Picasso and Henry Miller, Brassaп knew and photographed the leading figures of his day – Giacometti, Sartre, Dalн, Matisse and Mann among them. His most famous portraits and cityscapes, collected in this volume, form a unique vision of life in pre- and post-war Europe.