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Photographing Paris: "For ome time he had had the ambition to create a collection if all that which both in Paris and its surroundings was iristic and picturesque," wrote his friend Andre Cal-nettes.29 Photographe d'art, photographer of works of it, he called himself, and he hand lettered the sign "Doc-iments pour artistes" for the door of his fifth-floor apart-nent-darkroom at 31 rue Campagne Premiere. A great leal of his work was photographing the historic buildings if Paris in detail. He made a series of photographs of iron pill work, another of the fountains of Paris.
Brassa'i learned the technique he used so eloquently in photographing Paris by night, by whatever light he could find. Brassa'i pioneered in the discovery of form in the most unlikely aspects of the city: Wall scrawls (graffiti), time-worn masonry, weathered boardings. He photographed people unobtrusively yet directly, with human warmth. His massive documentation of fellow artists at work—he is himself a sculptor and draftsman—is most impressive.
The Selective Shopper on the Prowl Paris is a shopper's heaven, especially if the shopper is on the distaff side. It is an expensive heaven, in these days, notably excepting perfumes, which are far cheaper in Paris than in America, but the cost doesn't seem to frighten tourists away. Paris est toujours Paris. |
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