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Brassaï

Brassaï (1899-1984) was born Gyula Halász in Brasso, in what was formerly known as Transylvania, taking his adopted single name from that town. He discovered Paris as a youth and used his camera to record his lifelong fascination with the city’s nightlife and its denizens, populated with prostitutes, pimps, performers, criminals and assorted pleasure-seekers. He was associated with many famous writers and artists, including Picasso and Henry Miller, and with photographers such as André Kertész and Bill Brandt.

Brassaï.
Introduction by Paul Morand.
Paris de nuit.
Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933.

Brassaï and Daniel Henry Kahnweiler.
Les sculptures de Picasso.
Paris: Les Editions du Chêne, 1949.

Brassaï.
Camera in Paris.
London/New York: The Focal Press, 1949.

Aubier, Dominique.
140 photographs and notes by Brassaï.
Preface by Henri de Montherlant.
Fiesta in Seville.
New York: The Studio Publications, in association with Thomas Y. Crowell, 1956.

Miller, Henry.
Illustrated with 28 photogravures by Brassaï.
Quiet Days in Clichy.
Paris: Olympia Press, 1956.

Brassaï.
Introductory essay by Lawrence Durell.
Brassaï.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968.

Brassaï.
Henry Miller, grandeur nature.
Paris: Gallimard, 1975.

Brassaï.
Le Paris secret des années 30.
Paris: Gallimard, 1976.

Brassaï.
Translated by Richard Miller.
The Secret Paris of the 30s.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.

Brassaï.
Henry Miller, rocher heureux.
Paris: Gallimard, 1978.

Brassaï.
Introduction by Paul Morand.
Paris by Night.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.

Brassaï.
Picasso vu par Brassaï.
Paris: Musée Picasso, 1987.

Brassaï.
Graffiti.
Paris: Flammarion, 1993.

Brassaï.
Histoire de Marie.
Arles: Actes sud, 1995.

Brassaï.
Translated by Timothy Bent.
Henry Miller: The Paris Years.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1995.

Brassaï.
Marcel Proust sous l'emprise de la photographie.
Paris: Gallimard, 1997.

Brassaï.
Translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Conversations with Picasso.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Tucker, Anne.
With Richard Howard and Avis Berman.
Brassaï: The Eye of Paris.
Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999.

Brassaï.
Edited by Alain Sayag and Annick Lionel-Marie.
Brassaï: The Monograph.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000.

Gautrand, Jean-Claude.
Brassai, 1899-1984: Brassai's Universal Art.
Köln, London: Taschen, 2004.

Poirier, Diane Elisabeth.
Brassaï intime et inédit.
Paris: Flammarion, 2005.