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Brassaï

[bruh-sahy]

noun

  1. Gyula Halász, 1899–1984, French photographer, born in Hungary.



Brassaï

/ brasai /

noun

  1. real name Gyula Halész . 1899–1984, French photographer, artist, and writer, born in Hungary: noted for his photographs of Paris by night

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Buoyant members of a Harlem social club of drag kings and queens posed for James Van Der Zee, while Brassaï cast his quietly voyeuristic eye on a relaxed and tender lesbian couple enjoying a Paris nightclub.

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He also composed a collage, situating a famous photographic likeness of Genet by Brassaï in a bombed-out church and placing above the altar an image of Jesus injecting himself with a syringe.

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She was considered the last member of the humanist school of photography, whose ranks included Robert Doisneau, Brassaï and Willy Ronis — united by a common interest in capturing the spontaneous events that revealed the universal dignity of everyday life.

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She was 97 and considered the last member of the humanist school of photography, whose ranks included Robert Doisneau, Brassaï and Willy Ronis.

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I remember, for instance, learning that many of the gloomy photographs in "Paris by Night," Brassai's classic vision of 1930s Paris nightlife, were taken during the day.

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