Brassai: Paris by Night

This essential reference in the history of urban photography—compiled by Brassaï himself and first published in 1933—has been meticulously reproduced in a new edition, with tinted page edges.

The city of Paris bewitched Hungarian-born Brassaï. Working as a journalist by day in the early 1930s, he roamed the streets of the capital by night, visiting its bistros and sharing moments in the lives of avant-garde artists, prostitutes, peddlers, down-and-outs, and illicit lovers. He captured portra...