Jean-Claude Gautrand, Brassaï — Brassaï

Köln London Los Angeles Madrid Paris Tok: TASCHEN. First edition, first printing. 192 pp., 25 x 20. Text in English, French and German. Condition: Fine (F). Fine copy. Night streets, bars and back rooms of Paris between the wars, photographed by the Hungarian-born Brassaï, who settled in the city after the First World War. The selection follows his career in thematic chapters: his work for the magazine Minotaure, Paris at Night, Secret Paris, Day Visions, The Artists of My Life and Graffiti. The pictures range from street scenes and the city's marginal figures, including prostitutes and working-class Parisians, to portraits of artists and studies of wall graffiti. Images are drawn from several of his published projects, among them Les Sculptures de Picasso, Graffiti, Picasso & Co., Henry Miller: Grandeur Nature and The Artists of My Life. It is a monograph of one photographer's work, with a text by Jean-Claude Gautrand on Brassaï's life and career, and it is illustrated in black and white throughout. This is a multilingual paperback edition.