'A Happy Group, Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe' by Brassai

            This photo was taken by famed Hungarian-French photographer Brassai in 1932 Paris.  Brassai made great creative use of the mirrors in Parisian bars and cafes.  Here the uncanny doubling of the "happy group"....a man in a fedora between the two women, his arm over one's shoulder....invites us to shake our heads and look again.  Brassai's sly reminder that a photograph is just a picture, no more substantial than a reflection in a mirror, only intensifies the vivid scene.

Born Gyula Halász (1899-1984) he took the French pseudonym, Brassaï, in honor of his Hungarian hometown in Brassó, Transylvania. The young artist moved to Paris where he intended to paint, but took up photography when he recognized the camera’s inimitable ability to capture the light in the dark, and the way it revealed itself on silver gelatin paper.  These images, which earned him the title of “the eye of Paris” on an essay by Henry Miller, gave Brassaï instant entrée to café society and the haute monde, to the glorious glamour and decadence that was Paris between the World Wars. In this fleeting moment of history, Brassaï captured it all.  

Among the most noteworthy haunts of Brassaï’s shady characters were the dance halls, called 'bals musette' for the bagpipe instrument which the peasants of Auvergne had brought with them in the 19th century (in the 20th century, the musette had given way to the accordion, but the name remained). In artistic terms, Brassaï’s most prolific location was perhaps the Bal des Quatre Saisons in Rue de Lappe, near the Place de la Bastille.

Taken on: November 27, 2018

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Camera: Apple iPhone 7, f/1.8, 1/5 sec, 4mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Apple iPhone 7
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Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.2 sec (1/5)
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ISO:	80
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Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
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