TY - BOOK ID - 128752274 TI - Brassaï : for the love of Paris AU - Brassaï AU - de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Agnès AU - Hôtel de ville (Paris, France) PY - 2013 SN - 9782080201683 2080201689 PB - Paris : Flammarion, DB - UniCat KW - Photography, Artistic. KW - Night photography KW - Brassaï, KW - Paris (France) KW - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:128752274 AB - "This striking monograph celebrates the beauty of Paris, Brassaï's muse throughout his career. Hungarian-born photographer Brassaï dedicated more than fifty years of his artistic creation to capturing his adoptive city in all its facets. From winsome children playing in the public gardens to an amorous couple on an amusement park attraction, from opera and ballet stars to prostitutes and vagrants, and from cobblestone alleyways to ephemeral graffiti, his photographs embody the very essence of Paris. In an interview shortly before his death in 1984, he explained how Paris had served as an infinite source of inspiration and had reigned as the unifying theme that characterized each phrase of his artistic work"--Amazon.com, viewed April 17, 2014. ER -