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One of the most renowned photographers of the interwar period, Brassaï, born Gyula Halász (1899-1984), enjoyed a natural affinity with Paris, revelling in the city’s rich atmosphere and photographic potential. The artist’s photographs of Parisian street scenes would later come to epitomise the Surrealist uptake and embodiment of the flâneur. Brassaï’s best known photographs come from the 1930s and depict the city’s nightly reverie and marginalised: sex workers, drinkers, pimps, and revellers, all taken in poor light, and filled with brooding atmosphere and implied narratives. In 1935, he joined the Rapho photographic agency, and quickly became internationally renowned for his images of Paris: a city that seemed the centre of all things artistic during the inter-war period. He was also a prolific writer, film-maker and sculptor.

In 1948, Brassai was invited to exhibit his photographs in a solo show at MoMA, New York. His work has been exhibited internationally in France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States, and is held in the permanent collections of

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Gyula Halasz Brassaï Hungarian-French, 1899-1984

Fête (Bumper cars), c. 1932
L’Homme Gorille et Son Fils, ca. 1933
Picasso in his Studio in the Rue des Grands-Augustins, 1939
Bal du 14 Juillet, Place de la Contrescarpe, 1934
Couple Au Bal Negre, Rue Blomet, ca. 1932
Dressed Up For Riding, 1936
Golfers
La Nuit de Longchamp, 1937
Tramp, Cannes, ca. 1932-34
Untitled (Mannequin head)
Untitled (Mannequin head)

“The man from Brasso”, the Hungary university town where he was raised, was born Gyula Halász. He studied art in Budapest and then in Berlin following WWI. Son of a university professor who taught French, he had come to Paris first as a small boy, and stayed for a year with his father. The attitude of simple wonder never left him, regardless of subject matter his astonished eye is one of the constant elements in his work. He returned to Paris in 1923 and was particularly drawn to the neighbourhood of Montparnasse. He prowled the streets, commenting “my camera sees all different kinds of people and with impar

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Brassaï

Hungarian-French photographer

Brassaï (French:[bʁasaj]; pseudonym of Gyula Halász; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist,^[1] writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the world wars.

In the early 21st century, the discovery of more than 200 letters and hundreds of drawings and other items from the period 1940 to 1984 has provided scholars with material for understanding his later life and career.

Early life and education

Gyula Halász, a.k.a. Brassaï (pseudonym), was born on 9 September 1899 in Brassó, Kingdom of Hungary (today Brașov, Romania) to an Armenian mother and a Hungarian father. He grew up speaking Hungarian and Romanian. When he was three his family lived in Paris for a year, while his father, a professor of French literature, taught at the Sorbonne.

As a young man, he studied painting and sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (Magyar K