Brassai: Paris by Night Rizzoli Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Over the years

les images en noir et blanc de Sanctuary

which defined the iconography of WPA and Depression-era America

sleeping on the streets and often propelled to keep moving by fear as much as curiosity

Brassai: Paris by Night Rizzoli Alfred HitchcockThis essential reference in the history of urban photographycompiled by Brassa himself and first published in 1933has been meticulously reproduced in a new edition, with tinted page edges. The city of Paris bewitched Hungarian born Brassa. Working as a journalist by day in the early 1930s, he roamed the streets of the capital by night, visiting its bistros and sharing moments in the lives of avant garde artists, prostitutes, peddlers, down and outs,