Brassai

1949

Pierre Bonnard au Garret

c. 1933

A gas company employee lighting the gas lamps on the Place de la Concorde, Paris began to be gaslit in 1838. Electricity began to be installed around the turn of the century, but in the thirties, large portions of Paris were still lit by gas.

c. 1931

Street Fair on the Place d'Italie

c. 1931

Dancers on display in front of their booth, Boulevard Saint-Jacques

c. 1931

Conchita's dance at "Her Majesty, Woman," Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui

c. 1931

Conchita on display in front of "Her Majesty, Woman."

c. 1933

Conchita with sailors in a cafe on the Place d'Italie

c. 1933

The Human Gorilla with his son Peterchen in the acrobat's hotel, Boulevard Rochechouart, Montmartre

c. 1933

A fortuneteller in her wagon, Boulevard Saint-Jacques

c. 1933

Tarot cards, crystal ball

c. 1934

Street fair, Place Saint-jacques (taken from the window of my Paris apartment)

c. 1934

A kiss on the giant swing, Boulevard Saint-Jacques

c. 1934

The fourteenth of July, Place de la Bastille

c. 1932

Clochards under the Pont-Neuf. In the distance, the Pont des Arts

c. 1932

The bum with his cat

c. 1934

The dean of Parisian bums, Boulevard Saint-Jacques

c. 1931

Cesspool cleaners, Rue Visconti, Saint-Germain-des-Pres

c. 1931

Cesspool cleaners with their pump, Rue Rambuteau

c. 1931

Supper with the cesspool cleaners, Saint-Paul district

c. 1932

A urinal on the Boulevard Saint-Jacuques

c. 1935

A urinal, Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui

c. 1932

Members of Big Albert's Gang, Place d'Italie

c. 1931

Police during a raid in Montmartre

c. 1931

Big Albert's gang, Place d'Italie

c. 1932

The escaped con one evening on the Rue de la Ferronnerie, in Les Halles

c. 1932

Pair of lovers, Rue Croulebarbe, near the Place d'Italie

c. 1932

Lovers in the park on the Champs-Elysees

c. 1932

Lovers on a bench, Boulevard Saint-Jacques, next to a bum

c. 1931

Lovers in a bistro, Rue Saint-Denis

c. 1932

Pair of Lovers, Place d'Italie

c. 1932

Lovers, Place d'Italie

c. 1932

A bar, Rue de Lappe

c. 1932

The band at the Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve

c. 1932

The Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe

c. 1932

Group of men at the bar of a bistro, Rue de Lappe

c. 1932

Women with spit curls at the bar of a bistro, Rue de Lappe

c. 1931

Couple in a bar, Rue Saint-Denis

c. 1932

Couple at the Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe

c. 1932

Lovers' quarrel, Bas des quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe

c. 1932

A happy group at the Quatre Saisons

c. 1932

A prostitute playing Russian billiards, Boulevard Rochechouart, Montmartre

c. 1932

Prostitutes in a bar, Boulevard Rochechouart, Montmartre

c. 1932

Miss Diamonds in the Bar de la Lune, Montmartre

c. 1932

Miss Diamonds, Bar de la Lune, Montmartre

c. 1932

A lady of the evening, Rue de Lappe

c. 1932

Streetwalker near the Place d'Italie

c. 1932

The same from behind

c. 1931

Two girls looking for tricks, Boulevard Montparnasse

c. 1932

Streetwalker, Rue Quincampoix

c. 1932

A girl on the Rue Quincampoix, in carpet slippers, naked under her coat

c. 1932

A novice prostitute, Place d'Italie

c. 1931

A lady of the evening near the Place d'Italie, in her spring finery

c. 1932

A brothel in the Rue des Lombards, Boccaccio, author of the Decameron, was born on this street

c. 1932

The Rue Quincampoix and its hotels de passe

c. 1932

A pickup, near Les Halles

c. 1932

Washing up in a brothel, Rue Quincampoix

c. 1932

At Suzy, Rue Gregoire-de-Tours, in the Saint-Germaine quarter

c. 1932

Mirrored wardrobe in a brothel, Rue Quincampoix

c. 1932

Waiting for clients

c. 1932

"Madame"

c. 1932

At Suzy

c. 1932

A client

c. 1932

At Suzy, introductions

c. 1931

A monastic brothel, Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, Quartier Latin

c. 1932

Cafe terrace, the Dome in Montparnasse

c. 1932

A cab in front of the Dome

c. 1932

"The Horde" at the Bal Bullier, Montparnasse

c. 1932

"The Pantheress" with the band, "The Horde" at the Bal Bullier, Montparnasse

c. 1932

Couple at the Bal Negre, Rue Blomet

c. 1931

Gisele performing at the Boule Blanche in Montparnasse

c. 1932

At the Cabane Cubaine in Montmartre

c. 1932

Kiki surrounded with men at the Cabaret de Fleurs, Rue de Montparnasse

c. 1932

Kiki with her accordion player at the Cabaret des Fleurs, Rue de Montparnasse

c. 1932

Kiki with her friends Therese Treize de Caro and Lily

c. 1932

An English girl in her dressing room at the Folies-Bergere

c. 1932

A costumed showgirl, Folies-Bergere

c. 1932

"The Rainbow" at the Folies-Bergere

c. 1932

"Juan-les-Pins," Folies-Bergère

c. 1932

"The Spider Web," Folies-Bergere

c. 1932

View down onto the stage, Folies-Bergere

c. 1931

The Bal des Quat'z Arts. A couple getting "dressed"

c. 1931

"Savages" in the Rue Bonaparte

c. 1931-1932

A gilded warrior

c. 1931-1932

Gilded warriors

c. 1932

A couple at Le Monocle

c. 1932

Young female invert, Le Monocle

c. 1932

Le Monocle, the bar. On the left is Lulu de Montparnasse

c. 1932

"Duchess Zoe", the Ball at Magic City

c. 1931

The Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve

c. 1931

Young couple wearing a two-in-one suit at the Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve

c. 1932

A couple at the homosexual ball at Magic City

c. 1931

Young couple, Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve

c. 1931

An opium den, Avenue Bosquet. A tray with pipes, pins, oil lamp

c. 1931

An opium smoker asleep