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Title: Brassai : Paris By Night by Brassai ISBN: 0-8212-2738-6 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Printing process
Comment: This book was conceived and executed around a specific printing process, heliogravure. The original 1933 edition, if you could find it, which would be quite a feat, would look very much like the Pantheon edition published about a decade ago, and have many of the features of the current edition that some reviewers find objectionable: matte paper, black borders, strange tonality when compared to traditionally printed work. That's why the Pantheon edition, which some of the leading figures in modern printing and photography worked on, was such a landmark, and why the cheaply printed editions between the original and that one were junk -- and gave people a very serious misapprehension of how Brassai wanted his work to look.
Unfortunately, an attempt to reproduce the characteristic look of heliogravure using a more conventional printing process is a pretty tall order. If you don't like the way this edition looks, and you very well may not, see if you can find a library that has a copy of the Pantheon edition and compare them. You'll be amazed that the aspects of this edition's printing that you found objectionable actually make _that_ edition beautiful and unique.
It is a shame that Amazon does not even list the Pantheon edition so that it cannot be searched for as a used book -- and that the current publisher deceptively printed an edition that looks superficially like heliogravure but is not.
Rating: 3
Summary: Latest edition of Brassai: Paris By Night.
Comment: This book is very important. Paris By Night by Brassai is a book that is central in the history of photograhy.It has been a great inspiration for many photograhers (and others).
It is a shame, that this edition is very badly printed (loss of detail).
I am sorry to say, that therefore the book is too exspensive.
I bought the book anyway. Why?
Because I wanted to have it on my shell. To study it. And because it reminds me of the first time, twenty years ago, when I saw some of the pictures from Paris By Night, and found that photograpy could be a great art.
Rating: 2
Summary: Reproduction quality is an insult to Brassai
Comment: One only has to compare the nicely reproduced dust jacket photo to the print of it in the book to see the amount of detail that is lost in the rest of these images. Even the thumbails in the back next to the writeups show more detail than the muddied out larger vesions in the book. Brassai's images are so great that even muddied up like this they are worth looking at, but what a shame the publisher didn't do better. Shame, shame, shame.
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Title: The Secret Paris of the '30s by Brassai, Richard Miller ISBN: 0500271089 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Brassai: The Monograph by Alexande Alan/Grenier Sayag ISBN: 0821226681 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 31 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Brassai: The Eye of Paris by Anne Wilkes Tucker ISBN: 0810963809 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Henry Cartier-Bresson-A Propos De Paris by Henri Cartier-Bresson ISBN: 0821224964 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Tibetan Portrait : The Power of Compassion by Dalai Lama, Phil Borges, Elie Wiesel ISBN: 0847819574 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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