Tag: Brassai

  • Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’ – The New York Times

    Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’ – The New York Times

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    Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’ While in Paris, photography became Brassai’s main language as he wandered through bars, ballrooms and occasionally brothels, sometimes giving direction to his subjects. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/lens/brassai-the-eye-of-paris.html That sentiment and others cited in “Brassai,” a book recently released by Spain’s Fundación Mapfre, were most likely colored by Brassaï’s retrospective regret for not…

  • Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century

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    BJP: What is it with Hungary? As the Royal Academy’s forthcoming exhibition will show, this small European country punched well above its weight in the photography world in the middle of the last century, giving us people such as Robert Capa, László Moholy-Nagy, André Kertész, Brassaï and Martin Munkácsi.