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Brassai
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1949
Pierre Bonnard au Garret
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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.
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c. 1931
Street Fair on the Place d'Italie
c. 1931
Dancers on display in front of their booth, Boulevard Saint-Jacques
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c. 1931
Conchita's dance at "Her Majesty, Woman," Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui
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c. 1931
Conchita on display in front of "Her Majesty, Woman."
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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
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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
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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
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c. 1934
The dean of Parisian bums, Boulevard Saint-Jacques
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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
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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
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c. 1932
The escaped con one evening on the Rue de la Ferronnerie, in Les Halles
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c. 1932
Pair of lovers, Rue Croulebarbe, near the Place d'Italie
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c. 1932
Lovers in the park on the Champs-Elysees
c. 1932
Lovers on a bench, Boulevard Saint-Jacques, next to a bum
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c. 1931
Lovers in a bistro, Rue Saint-Denis
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c. 1932
Pair of Lovers, Place d'Italie
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c. 1932
Lovers, Place d'Italie
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c. 1932
A bar, Rue de Lappe
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c. 1932
The band at the Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve
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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
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c. 1931
Couple in a bar, Rue Saint-Denis
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c. 1932
Couple at the Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe
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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 billards, Boulevard Rochechouart, Montmartre
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c. 1932
Prostitutes in a bar, Boulevard Rochechouart, Montmartre
c. 1932
Miss Diamonds in the Bar de la Lune, Montmartre
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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
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c. 1932
The same from behind
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c. 1931
Two girls looking for tricks, Boulevard Montparnasse
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c. 1932
Streetwalker, Rue Quincampoix
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c. 1932
A girl on the Rue Quincampoix, in carpet slippers, naked under her coat
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c. 1932
A novice prostitute, Place d'Italie
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c. 1931
A lady of the evening near the Place d'Italie, in her spring finery
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c. 1932
A brothel in the Rue des Lombards, Boccaccio, author of the Decameron, was born on this street
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c. 1932
The Rue Quincampoix and its hotels de passe
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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
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c. 1932
"Madame"
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c. 1932
At Suzy
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c. 1932
A client
c. 1932
At Suzy, introductions
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c. 1931
A monastic brothel, Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, Quartier Latin
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c. 1932
Cafe terrace, the Dome in Montparnasse
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c. 1932
A cab in front of the Dome
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c. 1932
"The Horde" at the Bal Bullier, Montparnasse
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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
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c. 1932
Kiki surrounded with men at the Cabaret de Fleurs, Rue de Montparnasse
c. 1932
Kiki with her accordian 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
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c. 1932
A costumed showgirl, Folies-Bergere
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c. 1932
"The Rainbow" at the Folies-Bergere
c. 1932
"Juan-les-Pins," Folies-Bergere
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c. 1932
"The Spider Web," Folies-Bergere
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c. 1932
View down onto the stage, Folies-Bergere
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c. 1931
The Bal des Quat'z Arts. A couple getting "dressed"
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c. 1931
"Savages" in the Rue Bonaparte
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c. 1931-1932
A gilded warrior
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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
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c. 1932
A couple at the homosexual ball at Magic City
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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
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Brassai
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