{"id":33375,"date":"2019-02-08T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=33375"},"modified":"2024-01-14T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:00:56","slug":"brassai-sf-moma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2019\/02\/08\/brassai-sf-moma\/","title":{"rendered":"Brassa\u00ef at SF MOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A decent show.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Passing through the pothole ridden excuse for a road system that is the Bay Area the other day, and stepping carefully around all the mid-western conventioneers packing the sidewalks, I stopped by SF MOMA to catch the Brassa\u00ef photography show.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian street snapper Brassa\u00ef was at his most prolific in the early 1930s, a period which coincides with some of the best work by his contemporary Henri Cartier-Bresson.  However, whereas HC-B was more interested in surrealist design in his images, Brassa\u00ef was a street snapper <i>par excellence<\/i> and it&#8217;s hardly surprising that Paris would be his city of choice.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011 when MOMA ran the HC-B show <a href=\"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/01\/24\/hc-b-at-sf-moma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I remarked how poorly staged it was<\/a>.  MOMA has learned from its mistakes and the Brassa\u00ef show contains fewer, better spaced images even if the affectation of sourcing original, muddy prints remains.  To best show the artist&#8217;s work these really should be reprinted by a competent technician.<\/p>\n<p><center><i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Brassai_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nA lousy $2 discount for old age.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Brassai_02.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"615\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nMagnificent entrance to the show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Brassai_03.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nObligatory tour guide for those incapable of forming an independent opinion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Brassai_04.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nA solid introduction to the great Hungarian.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Brassai_05.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nFor his night snaps a tripod was essential, given the slow lenses and emulsions of the time.<br \/>\nThe camera is a Voigtl\u00e4nder Bergheil which took 6x9cm glass plates!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Brassai_06.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nNo denying the man&#8217;s philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Brassai_07.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nFine uncrowded presentation of the works.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For more about Brassa\u00ef&#8217;s landmark book, &#8216;Paris de Nuit&#8217;, click <a href=\"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/11\/10\/paris-by-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All snaps on the Panny GX7 with the 12-35mm zoom at f\/2.8 and ISO 1600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decent show. Passing through the pothole ridden excuse for a road system that is the Bay Area the other day, and stepping carefully around all the mid-western conventioneers packing the sidewalks, I stopped by SF MOMA to catch the Brassa\u00ef photography show. The Hungarian street snapper Brassa\u00ef was at his most prolific in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2019\/02\/08\/brassai-sf-moma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brassa\u00ef at SF MOMA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38197,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33375\/revisions\/38197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}