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Paris de Nuit

Item date(s): [December 1932]

Brassaï  - (photographed by)
Paul Morand  - (text by)


Pages: [xiii], 60 plates
Size: 250mm

Sub-type: Photo book

Place publication: Paris
Publisher: Edition
Cat. 194-NMM2A
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Publiées dans la Collection "Réalites" sous la direction de J. Bernier.

60 photos inédiited de Brassai.

Illustrated with 62 photographs by Brassai and photographic enleaves. Bound in original wrappers picturing a Brassai photograph. Title printed in red, spiral bound, in a red cloth folding box.

Bookseller's description: one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century photographic literature. Pairis de Nuit perfectly captures the feeling of Paris during the era of the Depression with darkened gardens, deserted swuares, ladies of the evening and smoke-filled bars and cafés. This extraordinarily evocative book is now very difficult to find in collectible condition.

Parr and Badger, The Photobook I, p134.

Roth, The Book of 101 Boks, p76.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0194 - NMM2A on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/15081











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