Brassai (1899-1984) was the first and is still the most famous photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Born in Hungary, he came to the French capital in 1924, working first as a journalist and then embracing photography, but it was the Paris of the 1930s that forms the bedrock of his body of work....

Book DescriptionGUSTAVE LE GRAY (1820-82) was among the first to claim that photographs should be thought of as artworks in themselves. Originally a painter, Le Gray became the first great teacher in the history of the photographic medium, his students including Charles NEgre and Maxime du Camp....