Brassai : letters to my parents / translated from the Hungarian by Peter Laki and Barna Kantor.

Main entry:

Brassaï, 1899-1984.

Title & Author:

Brassai : letters to my parents / translated from the Hungarian by Peter Laki and Barna Kantor.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1997]
© 1997

Description:

xxii, 274 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
"English-language edition sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
Foreword to the English Edition / Gilbert Brassai -- The Letters -- Hallway to Parnassus / Andor Horvath -- Editorial Note / Andor Horvath -- Education of a Young Artist / Anne Wilkes Tucker.

Summary:

Nicknamed the "Eye of Paris" by Henry Miller, Brassai was one of the great European photographers of the twentieth century. This volume of letters and photographs, many published for the first time, chronicles the fascinating early years of Brassai's life and artistic development in Paris and Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s.
The amazing letters Brassai wrote to his parents during his years as a student and struggling artist in Paris and Berlin are published here in English for the first time. Just as Brassai captured in his photographs the texture, mood, and mystery of 1930s Paris, so too in his letters, through his candid, detailed, and vivid descriptions, he conveys in an immediate and forceful way what it was like to live in that world. An important, revealing work for everyone interested in Brassai and the history of photography, this collection will fascinate anyone who wants a firsthand account of Berlin and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226071464 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780226071466 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0226071472
9780226071473

Subject:

Brassaï, 1899-1984 Correspondence.
Brassaı̈, 1899-1984 Correspondence.
Brassaï, 1899-1984
Brassaï
Photographers France 20th century Correspondence.
Photographers France Correspondence.
Photographes France Correspondance.
Photographes France 20e siècle Correspondance.
Photographers
Briefsammlung
Foto's.
France

Form/genre:

Correspondence.
letters (correspondence)
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence
Correspondance privée.

Added entries:

Laki, Peter, translator.
Kantor, Barna, translator.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193124
Call No.: ID TR140.B823; ID:97-B4186
Status: Available

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