“I don’t invent anything. I imagine everything… most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.”
― Brassaï, Brassai, Paris
Gala soiree at Maxim’s, 1949. Photograph- Estate Brassaï Succession
Brassaï (aka Gyula Halász: born in Brassó, Hungary (now Brașov, Romania) – 1899-1984) photographed what he saw in 1930s Paris. He captured the high life and the low, showing us the ballet, opera, brothels and high society.
Amoureux dans un Petit Cafe, Quartier Italie, circa 1932
Untitled, Paris, 1937
La Môme Bijou, Bar de la Lune, Montmartre, 1932
Streetwalker near Place d’Italie, 1932
A Morris column in the fog, Avenue de l’Observatoire, 1934
A Monastic Brothel, Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, 1931
Fat Claude and her Girlfriend at Le Monocle, 1932
Billiard player, Boulevard Rochechouart, 1932-33
View through Pont Royal toward Pont Solferino, 1933
Passage de Clichy, 1930-32
On the Boulevard Saint Jacques, 1930-32
Via: Foam Amsterdam
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