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Artist or Maker: BRASSAÏ (1899-1984)

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Description: BRASSAÏ (1899-1984)
Le Chat Blanc de l'Epicerie, c. 1938
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1950
negative number 'An.207' in ink, printer's annotations in pencil, '81 rue du Faubourg St.-Jacques' studio, 'Agence Rapho' and 'U.S. Camera' stamps (on the verso)
11¾ x 9in. (29.8 x 22.7 cm.)

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Notes: My greatest ambition is to make something new and striking of the banal and ordinary, to show an aspect of everyday life as if being seen for the very first time. - Brassaï