"When nothing was taboo"
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Paris in the 1930s.
Moving "effortlessly from slums to exclusive salons", the legendary photographer Brassaï captured the brothels, gay bars and backstreets of Paris's hazy night-time in its radical inter-war years.
Brassaï's photographs of lovers in cafes, the gargoyles of Notre Dame and the lamplit streets of Montmartre are some of the most iconic ever produced of Paris. A pioneer of night-time photography, he has shaped the view of the city as a place for romance, forever caught in a hazy twilight world of shadow. "The Paris you dream of, that's Brassaï's Paris," Anna Tellgren, curator of Brassaï: The Secret Signs of Paris at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, tells the BBC.
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And here I thought you were talking about when Adam and Eve were showing the fence around the Garden of Eve to Doug.
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The Steps of Montmatre is a lovely shot, and yet it may be the least interesting!
At my work the university library had a few shelves of photography 'coffee table' books within an extensive art book collection. Among them, the works of Beaton, Bresson, Adams, Capa, Ray, Mapelthorpe, Leibovitz, Bailey, and I remember Brassai too.
Ansel Adams was my favourite at the time, yet modern digital medium format makes his art photography easy-ish.
I now best love the old street scene photographs, a la Brassai, capturing a moment in b&w. A cafe, things like a smokey jazz joint, or life on a farm pre-tractor.
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