Brassai photography

Brassaï (Gyula Halász). Lovers Under a Street Lamp. (Les amoureux sous un rèverbére). c. 1932. Gelatin silver print. 11 7/16 × 8 1/4" (29.1 × 21 cm). David H. McAlpin Fund. 2532.1967. © Estate Brassaï-RMN. Photography

The 1930s saw the emergence of riveting night photography, from iconic lensmen like Ilse Bing and Brassaï. Some marquee examples—along with Jonathan Becker’s recollection of Brassaï, his mentor.

Called ‘the Eye of Paris’ by his friend the author Henry Miller, the legendary photographer created a striking body of work that documented high – and low – society in Paris between the first and second world wars

France. The Stairway, 1952 // Robert Doisneau

These impressive vintage pictures show Paris streets under the rain in the 1930s. paris under the rain, August 25, 1934 Paris, 1933...

As a young man, Brassai studied painting and sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He joined a cavalry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army, where he served until the end of the

Xenia Palley | Robert Doisneau | 1950

Works by: Bill Brandt Brassai Kertesz Pete McClure And others... RODCHENKO HAVE A NICE VIEW!

You’ll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to. “Pearl” (Maureen Stapleton) in Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978) Photo by Brassaï: Nocturnal Vi…

Gyula (Jules) Halász (the Western order of his name) was born in Brassó, Transsylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (since 1920 Brașov, Romania), to an Armenian mother and a Hungarian father. He grew up speaking Hungarian. 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, Gyula Halász studied painting and sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (Magyar Képzomuvészeti Egyetem) in Budapest. He…