Jean-Claude Gautrand – Brassaï
Editore: Taschen 2012
Brassaï – Un libro di Jean-Claude Gautrand
Nato in Transilvania, a Brasso (da qui lo pseudonimo), egli giunge nel 1924 nella capitale francese e ne diviene presto il più acuto interprete fotografico, tanto da essere poi ricordato come “l’occhio di Parigi”.
Il testo introduttivo del libro – in Spagnolo, Italiano e Portoghese come le didascalie e le schede biografiche e bibliografiche – traccia la storia di Brassaï e rende conto di quella sua particolare visione, che incontrò presto grandi consensi, soprattutto presso la comunità artistica e segnatamente presso i surrealisti.
Fonte: cultframe.com
“Brassaï is a living eye,” wrote Henry Miller of the Hungarian–born artist who adopted Paris after World War I and became one of its most celebrated photographers. Originally a painter before he moved on to writing, sculpture, cinema and, most famously, photography, Brassaï (1899-1984) was a member of Paris’s cultural elite, counting Miller, Picasso, Sartre, Camus, and Cocteau, among his friends.
Camera in hand, he scoured the streets and bars of Paris, unabashedly capturing the city’s inhabitants in their natural habitats. Prostitutes, hoodlums, and other ‘marginal’ characters were the most famous heroes of Brassaï’s moody, gritty photographs taken often by night. Including an extensive selection of Brassaï’s finest photographs and an essay describing his life and work, this book explores the world of Brassaï in thematic chapters: Minotaure magazine, Paris at Night, Secret Paris, Day Visions, Artists of My Life, and Graffiti and Transmutations.
Fonte: taschen.com