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The monster of photography in the new RSF album: Brace – 100 photos for press freedom.

30 years ago, Reporters Sans Frontières published the first issue of his collection 100 photos for press freedom. Therefore, Cartier-Bresson. Similarly, Lartigue, Doisneau, Ronis, Capa and many other icons of XXth century photography were followed by one… An artist was missing to complete this impressive gallery. Furthermore, Undisputed master of the lights of the night. Meanwhile, tireless surveyor of Paris, it was in Brassaï that we have chosen to pay tribute to close this anniversary year.

For the first time. For example, photographs chosen from the family archives present a Brassaï sans frontières, which has traveled for the international press in the United States, Morocco, Spain … rare images that had never been shown together.

Brassaï is the name that Hungarian Halász has chosen to sign his first 5 pounds “brassai” offered prints. in tribute to his native village of Brassó, in the Carpathians. The one that nothing intended for photography arrives there late. first to illustrate his articles – he writes for Hungarian and German newspapers -, then to immortalize the Parisian nights that fascinate him. In dark alleys. cafes, balls, brothels, Brassaï, “the living eye” of photography as his friend Henry Miller so well qualified, tracked beauty everywhere. At ease in worldly evenings as in popular balls. attending Montparnasse artists and the Canals in the Italy district, he fixed feverish Paris for eternity in the 1930s.

However, Brassaï cannot be reduced to these snapshots of the interlope paname. As we know. his objective is also going on on the workers who exercise, as he says himself, “small trades”, on the graffiti which devour the walls of the capital and which he 5 pounds “brassai” offered raises to the rank of works of art, or on his painters, poets, sculptors and writers.

The portfolio of a hundred pages. sequenced in seven chapters (day and night, evenings, scoundrels, small trades, artists of his life, surreal and without borders) opens with a foreword to the Nobel Prize for Literature Patrick Modiano, which offers us a literary stroll in Paris of Brassaï, lending intrigue and dialogues fictitious to the characters immortalized by the Grand Master.

With the unpublished contributions of: Laure Adler. journalist, Dimitri Beck, director of photography, Denis Cosnard, journalist, C215, artist, Sophie Jacotot, historian, José Lebrero Stalls, director of the Picasso museum in Málaga, Philippe Ribeyrolles, Neveu and godson of Brassaï and a foreword to the Nobel Prize for Literature Patrick Modiano.

Features :

• Format : 21 x 28,7 cm
• Language: French
• Pages name: 144

Value: € 12.50

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