Brassaï and the Poetry of Paris
Six Photographs, One Concept
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Brassaï is a Hungarian photographer whose most emblematic work has been to portray with his camera the Paris of the 1930s. Just as we know the Belle Époque through the gaze of Lautrec, Brassaï's gaze has become emblematic with respect to the image of Paris in those years.
The novelty is that Brassaï does not make the traditional documentary, but his work is charged with a new sensibility: humanist photography is being born.
In the interwar period (the twenties and thirties), there was a need to believe again in the humanity of the human being; there was an imperious need for a little optimism. Therefore, there were some photographers who no longer documented the transcendent events, the great facts, but preferred the little things, the small moments. Everyday life becomes exceptional. Life is ordinary, until a minor detail transform it into something magical, into a miracle.
Brassaï, one of the leaders of this new humanist photography, makes poetry with the most beautiful Paris, but he also makes poetry with its underworld, with the unsophisticated things, with the Paris where the lights do not shine so brightly.
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