Under Brassaï’s lens, Paris is shrouded with mystery, yet in the darkness of shadows, truths creep out. In the strictly realistic realm of photography, Brassaï expands into the magical space of ...
In the early 1930s, the writer Henry Miller dubbed Brassaï “the eye of Paris” but in fact the late photographer didn’t settle down in the City of Lights until he was in his mid-20s. Born Gyula Halász ...
Famed Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï was one of a number of photographers who made his name and reputation in the inspiring artistic milieu of Paris between the two world wars. His evocative, ...
In the summer of 1974, I wrote a paper at Harvard University entitled “Brassaï and Surrealism, Brassaï as Surrealist.” The professor, I later discovered, was Brassaï’s acquaintance, and had me forward ...
THE DAILY PIC (#1347): Marble, bronze, encaustic, oils—and toothpaste and chewing gum. Two works in a group show at Peter Freeman gallery in New York trace a partial history of some new, very modern ...
It’s unlikely that any single artist has ever been — or ever will be — as intimately associated with Paris as the Hungarian-born photographer, writer and filmmaker Gyula Halász, known to the world as ...
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‘Ansel asked me if I was using his “zone system”. When I said I had my own method, he said I was probably using his unconsciously’ In 1976, I was working at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. The ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On April 2 1957, the Hungarian-born photographer, Gyula Halász, known as Brassaï, and his wife, Gilberte, boarded the ...