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(0)Peter Galassi
2) Brassaï
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This Brassai overview gathers outstanding prints of his finest and most popular photographs, drawing on the Estate Brassai in Paris and the collections of leading museums in France and the United States. The work is organized into 18 thematic groupings, such as Paris at Night, Portraits, Self-Portraits, Body of a Woman, Graffiti, Places and Things, Pleasures, and The Street, focusing throughout on his celebrated depictions of 1930s Paris.
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"Julien Levy was one of the most influential collectors of the 20th century. His gallery, which opened in 1931 in New York, played an essential role in avant-garde cultural exchanges between France and the United States of America, and especially, it was the first in the United States to promote Surrealism." "Gathered together again for the first time since, these period prints represent an exceptional set of essential and sometimes unknown images....