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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 96
Utgivningsdatum: 2001-03-01
Upplaga: New ed
Förlag: Flammarion
Medarbetare: Morand, Paul (foreword)
Illustrationer: 62 illustrations
Dimensioner: 325 x 281 x 19 mm
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ISBN: 9782080105912

Hungarian Gyula Halsz trained as an artist in Budapest and Berlin, dabbling in drawing, painting and writing. Originally, he disdained photography, but when he finally picked up a camera and produced his epochal first book, Paris de nuit (Paris by Night), he transformed himself. This is that book. artist Gyula Halsz transformed himself into the world-renowned photographer Brassa.

Brassai (1899-1984) is considered one of the most important and influential photographers of the twentieth century. He moved from Hungary to Paris in 1924, and is best known for chronicling the city in the 1930s and for his portraits of artists, such as Picasso and Matisse, and writers, including Henry Miller. His fifty-year artistic career also encompassed drawing, sculpture, writing, and film-making.