The black-and-white photographs, shot at night in available light, merge street photography and portraiture and are, by turns, glamorous and gritty. They capture a lost Paris, sleazy yet stylish

Christer Strömholm, who died in 2002, is known as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher. In the late 1950s and early 60s, he lived in Paris intermittently and it was there that he created his most famous book, Les amies de Place Blanche – portraits of the often glamorous transsexuals who... See more