Brassai in America, 1957

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A rare discovery of more than 150 previously unpublished photographs in black and white and in color, from a legendary photographer. Despite strong personal and professional ties in the U.S.--Henry Miller, Harper''s Bazaar''s Carmel Snow, and Edward Steichen, who featured Brassai''s work in many MoMA exhibitions--Brassai remained reticent about travel to the U.S. until 1957 when <i>Holiday</i> magazine offered generous compensation (and artistic freedom) to photograph New York and Louisiana. <br>From the first symbolic image of this voyage--the Statue of Liberty appearing over the ship''s prow--Brassai came under the spell of America and his photographs innately captured his new perspective. In New York, he was captivated by the graphic skyscrapers and the rhythmic to-ing and fro-ing of the crowds. Unlike his static photographs of Paris--posing prostitutes, embracing lovers, sleeping street people--here he captured sequences of movement--children playing, fashionable women paradin