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Art Subject: City
Arriving, Las Vegas, American Color Pop Art Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Taken upon arriving in Las Vegas, photograph from Richard Heeps' 'Dream in Colour' series, this artwork captures a classic American neon Googie sign, with the famous Vegas cityscape ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Siena Rain
Located in London, GB
Siena Rain - Oversize c type - Limited Edition 1/50
by Bernhard Wübbel
Beautiful archival pigment print limited to 50 only - numbered and stamped by the ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Cathedral, Rooftops
By Jaromir Funke
Located in New York, NY
Vintage silver print
Signed in pencil, verso
Also inscribed by the artist's son in pencil, verso
9.5 x 7 inches, sheet
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
1940s Other Art Style Landscape Photography
Materials
Black and White
North Shore Motel Steps, Salton Sea, California - Architectural color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
North Shore Motel Steps, mid-century architecture photography captured by Richard Heeps as part of his Salton Sea series
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Horizontal Stabilizer (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Horizontal Stabilizer (Stranger than Paradise) - 2008
40x40cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel' 1957 Official Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Paper size 20 x 20 inches / 76 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Turquoise Corner by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Turquoise Corner by Alain Le Garsmeur
Locals on a street corner, Nicaragua, Central America, 1981.
Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 50 x 60 cm
Printed in 2022 - produced from the origina...
Category
1980s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Palm Beach - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Palm Beach
The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1955.
Gorgeous print measuring an large 40 x 40" inches / ca 101x101"
Estate Stamped Collectio...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Garriss' General Store, Stillwater, NJ
By George Tice
Located in Westwood, NJ
Print: 12/20/99
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Motorcycling Lord 1990
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Motorcycling Lord
Lord Hesketh, Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, by the lake in the grounds of his family estate Easton Neston...
Category
1990s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NYC
Located in New York, NY
Cibachrome print
Signed, dated, and inscribed "Yellow Cab – Upper East Side NYC" in black ink, verso
40 x 30 inches, sheet size
30 x 20 inches, image size
This artwork is offered b...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color
"Atlas Cement Near Olana" Chromogenic Landscape Print Susan Wides 1997
By Susan Wides
Located in Arp, TX
Susan Wides
"Atlas Cement Near Olana (December 18, 1997)"
1997
Chromogenic Print on Matte Paper
10"x10.5" image, overall 11" x 14", Unframed $2200
Signed on reverse in ink
*Custom fr...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Nicely Coiffed
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nicely Coiffed
A poodle enters a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France, 1970.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech
Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960
Paper size 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size)
Hand-numbered in ink on the front
Blind embossed...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Antonelli Sisters' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Antonelli Sisters'
Santa and Serena Antonelli taking tea on the terrace of their home above Via Giucciardini, Florence, Italy, 1983.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Esta...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bourdekke Entrance (black and white photograph limited edition)
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
Edward L. Rubin is an award-winning fine art photographer, production designer, and painter based in Los Angeles. He studied architecture at UC Berkeley and earned his MFA in Set Des...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Slim Aarons - New York Picnic 1952 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped - New York Picnic 1952
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street 1953 Slim Aarons
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity suppli...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Lovers' Leap
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
40 x 60 inches
50 x 75 inches
(Total edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note tha...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Poolside Promenade' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Promenade'
A fashion show at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Coll...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
'Ice Bar' 1979 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Ice Bar'
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in the Austrian ski resort of Lech, February 1979.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Beverly Hills Hotel 1957 - Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel 1957
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Edition
The sign on the side of the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Produced from the orig...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Police Patrol by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Police Patrol by Alain Le Garsmeur
A 28th Precinct policeman reads notes in his police patrol car in Harlem, New York City, USA, April 1978.
Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm
Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency
Archival Pigment Print and limited edition per paper size offered.
FRAMING:
Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service.
If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote.
Galerie Prints is proud to share with you this extraordinary body of Alain Le Garsmeur's insightful and beautifully captured photographic work, from the late 1970s and early 80s.
Alain Le Garsmeur (1943 - ) is an award-winning editorial documentary photographer for publications which included Figaro Magazine,
The Independent, Newsweek, and The Observer
as well as The Sunday Times. Born in France, he later moved to London where he studied at The Ealing College of Art Photography School. He soon became an assistant to great photographers such as Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Donald Silverstein...
Category
1970s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dancing Partners by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Dancing Partners by Alain Le Garsmeur
People dance under stringed lights outside the Chicago Board of Trade during a Dinner and Dance evening, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1979.
Paper si...
Category
1970s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Cannon Drive' 1952 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Cannon Drive'
1952: Cars driving along Cannon Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim A...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
'Beverly Hills Hotel' 1957 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beverly Hills Hotel' 1957 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
C Print
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Archive stamped
THIS PRINT 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Printed 2021
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilising the original transparency.
FRAMING:
Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service.
If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote.
We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations.
Keywords
1950s 50s beverly hills hotel retro...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
'Aerial Miami Beach' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Aerial Miami Beach' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
An aerial view of the hotels along the coast at Miami Beach, Florida, April 1972.
Produced from the original tra...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Untitled (Spiderman)
By Amy Stein
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please no...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Not a Through Street (Drive to the Desert) - analog hand-print
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Not a Through Street (Drive to the Desert) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signed o...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'NY Apartments' 1953 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'NY Apartments'
1953: A block of apartments on Park Lane in New York. The building is stepped so that the design includes balconies for flats on each floor.
30x30 inches / 76 x 7...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Siena Rain
Located in London, GB
Siena Rain - Oversize c type - Limited Edition 1/50
by Bernhard Wübbel
Beautiful archival pigment print limited to 50 only - numbered and stamped by...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled (Skull and Crossbones)
By Amy Stein
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please no...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
3 samourais - whimsical manipulated color photograph of a flying Parisian house
Located in New York, NY
Laurent Chéhere, a French photographer born in 1972 in Paris, makes images of flying houses and other dwellings that are informed by his wanderings in the hidden neighborhoods of Par...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
Siena Rain
Located in London, GB
Siena Rain - Oversize c type - Limited Edition 1/50
by Bernhard Wübbel
Beautiful archival pigment print limited to 50 only - numbered and stamped by the ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Savannah Food Store by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Savannah Food Store by Alain Le Garsmeur
A food store on the corner in downtown Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983.
Paper size 16 x 20 inches / 40 x 50 cm
Printed in 2022 - produced fro...
Category
1980s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
City
By Marc Yankus
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
17 x 11 inches, sheet size
(Edition of 15)
$2500.00
22 x 17 inches, sheet size
(Edition of 15)
Price upon request....
Category
1990s Other Art Style Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Walk On By by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Walk On By by Alain Le Garsmeur
A Cape Verde immigrant woman carrying a wash basket on her head walks by a neighbour cleaning the pavement outside of her h...
Category
1980s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
All Night Taco Stand, Av. Gustavo Baz Prada, El Country
By Jim Dow
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil, verso
17 x 22 inches, sheet
15.5 x 20 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
This is an estate stamp...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Streets Of San Francisco by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Streets Of San Francisco by Alain Le Garsmeur
A steep hill on the busy streets of San Francisco, California, 1979.
Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 50 x 76 cm
Printed in 2022 - produced...
Category
1970s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cable Car America by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Cable Car America by Alain Le Garsmeur
A cable car carries passengers through the steep streets of San Francisco, California 1979.
Paper size 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 50 cm
Printed in...
Category
1970s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Cannes Watersports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports
Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Ph...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man Entering Movie Theatre by Colored Entrance. Belzoni, Mississippi
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the image. Image made in 1939 and printed mid to late 1970s.
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Blondie On The Roof by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Blondie On The Roof
By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Blondie on the roof of the Gramercy Park hotel New York 1978
All prints are sig...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior
The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957.
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 61 x 61 cm
Estate Stamped Coll...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Manhattan Island' (Limited Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Manhattan Island' by Stuart Möller
Portrait photograph of the island of Manhattan and the New York Skyline.
New York City, New York, 2014.
A bea...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Airplane)
By Joshua Lutz
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print (Edition of 10)
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
30 x 35.5 inches, sheet
22 x 27 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Joshua Lutz is an American artist working with large-format photography and video. Lutz began photographing the Meadowlands ten years ago as a a documentary study of the 32-square-miles of marshy wilderness that sits between New Jersey and New York (while ostensibly searching for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa). Over the years, however, this project evolved into a compelling artistic exploration, revealing the soul of this liminal space.
Lutz was given his first solo exhibition at Gitterman Gallery during the summer of 2004. In 2008, “Meadowlands,” was published as Lutz's first book, with powerHouse Books. In essayist Robert Sullivan’s introduction to the monograph, he describes the Meadowlands as “. . .that giant swath of swamp and space that separates New Jersey from New York City, or, put another way, from New York City and the rest of the United States of America.” “The New Yorker” wrote: “Joshua Lutz takes the New Topographics...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Hotel Excelsior, Venice
1957
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
CAPTION: The ...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Holland Tunnel Tower
By Marc Yankus
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
22 x 17 inches, sheet
(Edition of 15)
38 x 27 inches, sheet
(Edition of 9)
From the series, "The Space Between"
This photograph i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By Marc Yankus
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
17 x 22 inches, sheet
(Edition of 15)
27 x 38 inches, sheet
(Edition of 9)
40 x 57 inches, sheet
(Edition of 3)
From th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Klosters - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Klosters by Slim Aarons
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963.
Skiers walk past the hotel and along the snow covered road carrying skis on their shoulders. The...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portofino, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Esta...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
Paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Escape to Paris
By David Drebin
Located in Malmo, SE
Digital C-Print with Diamond Dust.
Artwork size: 79x118 cm,
Frame size 83x122x5 cm.
Framed with a black wooden frame and museum glass anti-reflective.
Edition of 10.
Acquired direc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, C Print
'Lisbon Bottle Crate Load' 1984 Oversize Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
'Bottle Crate Load' 1984
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Immigrant children from Cape Verde carrying bottle crates, Lisbon,...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
The Brooklyn Museum
By Marc Yankus
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
17 x 35.35 inches, sheet size
15 x 33.25 inches, image size
(Edition of 9)
44 x 90.25 inches, sheet size
38 x 84.25 inches, image size
(Edition of 3)
From the series, "New York Unseen"
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Marc Yankus’ fine art and publishing experience span a period of more than thirty years. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Brassaï Original Black & White Photograph of a Street Fair
By Brassaï
Located in New York, NY
BRASSAI (Hungarian–French, 1899-1984)
Street Fair on the Place d'Italie, 1931
Medium: Sheet-fed Gravure
Printing Date: 1970's
Printed in the USA
Image: 10 1/2 x 8 inches
Framed: 14 1/2 x 12 inches
Although his real nameis Gyula Halasz, he took the name Brassai from his birthplace, and it means someone who comes from Brasov. He used the name all his adult life and is known throughout the world as Brassai.
He was of Hungarian ethnic origins. Brasov in Transylvania has been a part of Romania since the end of the First World War, and that region is still largely populated by ‘Romanain-Hungarians.’ Two of these became well known in the film industry: Bela Lugosi and Gabriel Pascal. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled after the War, most of its territories were distributed amongst a number of nations. It was at this time that Transylvania returned to its earlier identity as part of Romania.
Brassai had served in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry for the last year of the War, 1917-1918. After he settled in Paris in 1924, Brassai never returned to his homeland, remaining in exile for the rest of his life. His parents continued to live in Brasov but joined him for long visits in Paris.
In 1949 Brassai became a French citizen, having been a stateless person since 1947. He fell in love with a French woman, Gilberte Boyer, and they married in 1948. Gilberte worked closely with her husband as he pursued his photographic career, helping him develop prints in his dark-room, and often writing descriptions of the subjects and personalities. It was also in 1949 that a book with 207 photographs of Picasso’s sculptures was published, with photographs by Brassai. He and Picasso became friends and the latter asked him to photograph his work for this volume. Brassai was a frequent visitor to Picasso’s studio and there he took several portraits of the artist.
Brassai has become one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century with collectors all over the world seeking his work. In an era which produced several brilliant and inspired photographers, not least Brassai’s friend Man Ray, he was able to capture a quality of magic in the atmosphere, bordering on the supernatural. Many of his pictures were taken at night or in fog, a frequent condition in Paris in the early part of the twentieth century. Even his day time photographs capture a moment of eerie transition between the mundane and the surreal. He is on the doorstep of another world where time stands still. Light becomes spectral as if it is the breath of an invisible power. Figures seem set in amber. Wet cobbles seem to slither and flow. A Master of capturing the ordinary, Brassai saw things as they were but transmuted the scene through his use of the lens into something outside the ordinary.
Brassai was a familiar figure prowling round Paris after dark with his camera and tripod and heavy bag of glass photographic plates. He was sometimes accompanied by Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, or Leon Paul...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
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