Brassaï Moderna Museet, Stockholm
28 March to 4 October 2026

Brassaï never intended to be a photographer. He left Hungary for Paris in 1924 in order to become a painter, and remained true to his artist’s vocation throughout his career, using photography to explore various avant-garde innovations. In Surrealism he found the perfect vehicle to study his adopted city. Paris de Nuit, his most famous book, reads as a visual poem in which the French capital is depicted as a mysterious Elysium: all fog and ghostly luminosity.

Brassaï never intended to be a photographer. He left Hungary for Paris in 1924 in order to become a painter, and remained true to his artist’s vocation throughout his career, using photography to explore various avant-garde innovations. In Surrealism he found the perfect vehicle to study his adopted city. Paris de Nuit, his most famous book, reads as a visual poem in which the French capital is depicted as a mysterious Elysium: all fog and ghostly luminosity.