Brassaï: Paris Nocturne

by Sylvie Aubenas and Quenten Bajac

Brassai (1899-1984) was the first and is still the most famous photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Born in Hungary, he came to the French capital in 1924, working first as a journalist and then embracing photography, but it was the Paris of the 1930s that forms the bedrock of his body of work.

Walking the city's streets at night, Brassai captured a previously unseen world on camera. He shows us every face and every facet, from tough...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500544255
• ISBN13: 9780500544259
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.7" x 11.9"