Author: Brassai (Gyula Halasz). (Tr. Richard Miller).
Title: The Secret Paris of the 30's.
Description: Thames & Hudson. London 2001 reprint. Softcover. pp. unnumbered with 150 duotone illustrations. 4to No inscriptions, VG condition. ISBN: 9780500271087 A photographic memoir with photographs and text by Brassai. For many years it was known that Brassai had taken a series of 'secret photographs' which could not be published because of their daring nature. Alone or in the company of friends he discovered the forbidden Paris of the 1930s - its brothels, whores, pimps, and opium dens - the sordid yet bewitching bas-monde where high society mingled with the underworld. Brassai's photographs reveal a milieu previously known only through books such as the novels of Henry Miller (a frequent companion on his nocturnal rambles): the seamy, grimy yet infinitely exciting reality that tourists still think of when they seek 'Paris by night'.

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