Brassai PARIS DE NUIT PARIS BY NIGHT First Edition 1933 Photography Rare!
$3,900.00
Paris: Edition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933, 1933. Quarto. Original spiral-bound photographic stiff card wrappers, front wrapper lettered in red. An exceptional copy of this notoriously fragile work. With 62 full-page photographs. First edition, first impression. In this work "Brassaï became a master at drawing luminosity from the darkness. The swaths of wet paving stones featured on the covers and endpapers of Paris de Nuit gleam like pale beacons in the streetlight. Inside, Brassaï explores the city, beginning with its broad vistas and grand public spaces and gradually moving into the demimonde he knew so intimately" (Roth, p. 76). Parr & Badger I, p. 134; Roth, p. 76.
One of the classics of photographic literature, this extraordinarily evocative book is now very difficult to find in good condition. Brassai arrived in Paris in 1924 and prowled the city with his friends Henry Miller, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Prévert and Léon Paul Fargue. He used Kertèsz's camera. In 1933 his first book 'Paris de Nuit' was published. A book that remains one of the landmarks in the history of photography.
Rare in this condition
Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Paris: Edition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933, 1933. Quarto. Original spiral-bound photographic stiff card wrappers, front wrapper lettered in red. An exceptional copy of this notoriously fragile work. With 62 full-page photographs. First edition, first impression. In this work "Brassaï became a master at drawing luminosity from the darkness. The swaths of wet paving stones featured on the covers and endpapers of Paris de Nuit gleam like pale beacons in the streetlight. Inside, Brassaï explores the city, beginning with its broad vistas and grand public spaces and gradually moving into the demimonde he knew so intimately" (Roth, p. 76). Parr & Badger I, p. 134; Roth, p. 76.
One of the classics of photographic literature, this extraordinarily evocative book is now very difficult to find in good condition. Brassai arrived in Paris in 1924 and prowled the city with his friends Henry Miller, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Prévert and Léon Paul Fargue. He used Kertèsz's camera. In 1933 his first book 'Paris de Nuit' was published. A book that remains one of the landmarks in the history of photography.
Rare in this condition
Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Paris: Edition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933, 1933. Quarto. Original spiral-bound photographic stiff card wrappers, front wrapper lettered in red. An exceptional copy of this notoriously fragile work. With 62 full-page photographs. First edition, first impression. In this work "Brassaï became a master at drawing luminosity from the darkness. The swaths of wet paving stones featured on the covers and endpapers of Paris de Nuit gleam like pale beacons in the streetlight. Inside, Brassaï explores the city, beginning with its broad vistas and grand public spaces and gradually moving into the demimonde he knew so intimately" (Roth, p. 76). Parr & Badger I, p. 134; Roth, p. 76.
One of the classics of photographic literature, this extraordinarily evocative book is now very difficult to find in good condition. Brassai arrived in Paris in 1924 and prowled the city with his friends Henry Miller, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Prévert and Léon Paul Fargue. He used Kertèsz's camera. In 1933 his first book 'Paris de Nuit' was published. A book that remains one of the landmarks in the history of photography.
Rare in this condition
Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Feel free to contact us with any questions.