Gyula halasz port de marseille

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.

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Brassaï (i.e.

Gyula HALASZ BRASSAI () JOYEUX GROUPE, Tirage argentique contrecollé signé 29 x 23 cm Brassaï a su capturer l'essence de Paris dans ses clichés.

Brassaï (Gyula Halász) - Couple in a Bistro.

BRASSAÏ (Gyula Halasz, dit) () 'Gosses de Marseille', c.

Gyula Halász) arrived in Paris in He initially worked as journalist and reporter, though quickly began photographing the streets of Paris.

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.

This exhibition explores how the Mediterranean - in its call for freedom and travel, with its cultural diversity, and through the encounters that it provoked.

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.

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