Histoire de Marie par Brassaï, avec une introduction par Henry Miller
Brassaï
Paris. Les Editions du Point du Jour. 1949
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From the edition limited to 2,600 copies, with this one of 126 édition-de-tête copies on 'alfa Alma du Marais' with an original signed etching by Brassai and a presentation on the first blank leaf: 'Pour / Adam Saulnier / son ami / Brassaï / Paris le 8 mai / 1968'.
Brassaï, born Gyula Halasz in what is now Romania, was a prolific photographer who documented the seamier side of Parisian life. This collection of Brassaï's poetry, introduced by his friend Henry Miller, demonstrates that he was more than just a photographer. Divided into three sections, 'Propos de Marie', 'Le Procès de Marie' and 'Repertoire des Mots-Clés de Marie', the poetry is decidedly surreal in tone.
Adam Saulnier was a journalist and painter and intimate of all of the major figures in art. The date of the presentation (8th May, 1968) was in the middle of the wave of revolutionary strikes and social protests that ultimately destroyed the de Gaulle government; Saulnier was involved in the events - as a reporter and an activist - and was intimately involved in the long journalists' strike and that of the O.R.T.F. (Office de la Radiodiffusion Télévision Française).
'Adam Saulnier n'a jamais très bien su s'il était journaliste avant d'être peintre ou réciproquement. Et cela l'a servi d'ailleurs car il n'est jamais tombé dans le dilemme qui consiste à se demander si l'on fait une peinture de journaliste ou du journalisme de peintre. Il mène de front, avec un égal bonheur, cette double carrière'. (Pierre Cabanne writing in Arts, 1964).
Brassaï, born Gyula Halasz in what is now Romania, was a prolific photographer who documented the seamier side of Parisian life. This collection of Brassaï's poetry, introduced by his friend Henry Miller, demonstrates that he was more than just a photographer. Divided into three sections, 'Propos de Marie', 'Le Procès de Marie' and 'Repertoire des Mots-Clés de Marie', the poetry is decidedly surreal in tone.
Adam Saulnier was a journalist and painter and intimate of all of the major figures in art. The date of the presentation (8th May, 1968) was in the middle of the wave of revolutionary strikes and social protests that ultimately destroyed the de Gaulle government; Saulnier was involved in the events - as a reporter and an activist - and was intimately involved in the long journalists' strike and that of the O.R.T.F. (Office de la Radiodiffusion Télévision Française).
'Adam Saulnier n'a jamais très bien su s'il était journaliste avant d'être peintre ou réciproquement. Et cela l'a servi d'ailleurs car il n'est jamais tombé dans le dilemme qui consiste à se demander si l'on fait une peinture de journaliste ou du journalisme de peintre. Il mène de front, avec un égal bonheur, cette double carrière'. (Pierre Cabanne writing in Arts, 1964).
pp. 89. Small 8vo. Frontispiece etching by Brassaï, signed and numbered by him in pencil. Original publisher's brown printed wrappers with facsimile of Brassai's handwritten title.
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