Appreciation of Brassaï

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One of my favorite photographers!!
 

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Finally, a shooter & know & love! Brassai & Karsh are favs. Ongoing Thanks for bringing great imagery to mind.
 

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Excuse me

I have been in APUG for a short time and 77 pages of Photographers threads are a tremendous help (and requires a long-term effort for me), I am going forward little by little to see/analyse one by one. Thanks to all of the people for sharing this great information and the data that they've contributed.

However I take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to cliveh for all his work in this section, at this time!

But also I would like to make an observation regarding most of these appreciations/works. And this thread is a great opportunity, because is clearly visible if you look carefully: The significant damage all this world of internet does to a large number of artist and their works.

I assume we all agree that a color cast causes images to appear incorrectly, and same thing happens when cropping. A word to the wise is enough ...

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Perhaps it may not be relevant these days, but if those photographs were mine, I would be between upset and very upset. And if those photographs or the authors were one of my favourites, I would try to teach everything as near as possible to the way they really were/are. In my opinion, of course.
 

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Brassai is one of my all time favourites, right there with August Sander and Julia Margaret Cameron. The work inside the party rooms is magnificent, his work with deep shadows and evening work is
incredible.
If I was to own one print on a desert island it would be one of his.

My memory reminds me of a photographer who would mount a camera on wheels and pull the camera set up with a timer across the room and photograph very eloquent scenes... Was this Brassai.
 

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I assume we all agree that a color cast causes images to appear incorrectly, and same thing happens when cropping. A word to the wise is enough ...

Perhaps it may not be relevant these days, but if those photographs were mine, I would be between upset and very upset. ...

The Paris photo I posted is one I found months ago on the internet, I did not crop or change it in any way, although now I can see it has been cropped (which I did not realize then). I have seen variations of this photo where it was made darker and with more contrast. I saved and posted the one I liked best and which I believed was closest to the original. I never discovered or saw the uncropped version you have posted until now.
 
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Excuse me

I have been in APUG for a short time and 77 pages of Photographers threads are a tremendous help (and requires a long-term effort for me), I am going forward little by little to see/analyse one by one. Thanks to all of the people for sharing this great information and the data that they've contributed.

However I take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to cliveh for all his work in this section, at this time!

But also I would like to make an observation regarding most of these appreciations/works. And this thread is a great opportunity, because is clearly visible if you look carefully: The significant damage all this world of internet does to a large number of artist and their works.

I assume we all agree that a color cast causes images to appear incorrectly, and same thing happens when cropping. A word to the wise is enough ...


Perhaps it may not be relevant these days, but if those photographs were mine, I would be between upset and very upset. And if those photographs or the authors were one of my favourites, I would try to teach everything as near as possible to the way they really were/are. In my opinion, of course.

It's a great image, but HCB would probably have waited until a Latvian clown appeared at the second lamppost down:D.
 
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