Beauty

Brassaï, Paris (sometime in the 1930's)

This was the first image I saw of Brassaï's it is part of his 'Paris du Nuit' collection/book or what ever you want to call it. The main thing I love about this image is the way the light is caught in the mist. From the car and from the street lights in the background. This diffusion creates the silhouettes of the trees and as you go further back these silhouettes become faded. The ethereality of this image holds for me an intrigue, a longing to enter this scene. I would not want to enter the time, purely this moment. To walk about as if it were sculpture. The mist undisturbed by my passing, casting no shadows, leaving no footprints.

I told you I'd follow with something beautiful. 

S