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...even confessed to despising the art form. But he was a night owl, attracted to a city couched in the glow of street lamps and dense mist. Nocturnal Paris was, to him, a "world of pleasure, of love, vice, crime, drugs ... Paris at its most alive." The work of Brassaï, as Halász became in 1932 (meaning "from Brassó," his native village), made him one of the most admired and enduring photographers of the last century. And when 750 of the artist's works are auctioned at Drouot Montaigne in Paris Oct. 2-3 - two-thirds...
...like those in Couple at the Four Seasons Dance Hall, Rue de Lappe (circa 1932), pictured - prostitutes and brothels, some "like a chapel lit up for midnight mass." About 190 drawings of a "born draftsman," as Pablo Picasso labeled him, will also be on offer, alongside a dozen of Brassaï's sculptures; prices range from about $250 to $100,000. Not bad for the night shift. www.brassai-succession-millon.com
...city couched in the [an error occurred while processing this directive] glow of street lamps and dense mist. Nocturnal Paris was, to him, a "world of pleasure, of love, vice, crime, drugs ? Paris at its most alive." And best illuminating it called for a camera. The work of Brassaï, as Halász became in 1932 (meaning "from Brassó," his native village), made him one of the most admired and enduring photographers of the last century. And when 750 of the artist's works are auctioned at Drouot Montaigne in Paris Oct. 2-3 - two-thirds of them...
...DIED. Brassaï, 84, internationally renowned photographer who recorded the nighttime Parisian underworld of whores, hoodlums and homosexuals, of brothels, cabarets and opium dens, with a unique combination of directness, detachment and generosity; of a heart attack; in Eze sur Mer, France. Born Gyula Halász in Brassó (the origin of his pseudonym), in what is now Rumania, he went to Paris in 1924 to sculpt and write, then turned to photography to illustrate his articles. In 1933 his first major collection of seamy scenes, Paris de Nuit, was a sensation; a larger, franker version published...
...commented on by the director of the museum's photography department. There is, naturally, a wide choice of subject. The pictures were taken over a period extending roughly from 1850 to the present; the photographers include the likes of Pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Cartier-Bresson, Brassa'i, Robert Doisneau, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon. Szarkowski's pic-ture-by-picture text ranges from brilliant and supple observations to what can fairly be described as academic twaddle. People who take photography seriously will want the book because, even at his worst, Szarkowski takes photography very seriously indeed...
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