The Facts of Brassaï

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The steps of Montmartre in the morning fog, a couple kissing in a café with glasses of Chablis sitting before them, the Eiffel Tower lit up against a midnight sky. Brassaï– along with a handful of early 20th century photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Eugène Atget – was key in creating the myth of Paris as a bohemian metropolis where artists mix with prostitutes, pimps, philosophers and socialites. The H...