Since the early days of his career, Brassai has been a guide to avant-garde Paris. Not only was Brassai a noted photographer - nicknamed the eye of Paris by Henry Miller - he was also a prolific author and journalist whose Letters to My Parents was named a small classic in the history of the medium by Jed Perl in the New Republic. In that book, as well as many others, Brassai described the many important artists and writers with whom he developed close personal and professional relationships. Not the least among these was Picasso. Brassai recorded his many meetings and appointments with the great Spanish artist from 1943 to 1946, resulting in this book.