Memoir that chronicles Brassaï's relationships with artists living in Paris in the early to mid 20th century. Features his photographs and his reminiscences of artists whom he befriended, such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Salvador Dali, Charles Despiau, Raoul Dufy, Alberto Giacometti, Oksar Kokoschka, Henri Laurens, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Hans Reichel, Germaine Richier, Georges Rouault, Jacques Villon, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Ambroise Vollard. Translated from the original French version by Richard Miller.