Brassai

Portrait by Brassai Lilliput, March 1947

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“Brassaï - after midnight, 1930 Buon compleanno @simo_montanari 🌷”

The piercing eye of Brassaï: the stunning work of a master French photographer

Youths of my generation learned about Brassaï from his eye-opening Secret Paris of the 30s (1976). There were pictures of thugs, bums, prostitutes, brothels, drag balls, lesbian bars, interracial dances—who knew such things even existed forty years earlier? But then our fascinated naïvety was rewarded by further contemplation of the photographs, which were humane, sympathetic, endlessly inquisitive, beautifully composed, and drew every possible bit of poetry from the enveloping cloak of…

Brassaï: Untitled, Le Midi, ca 1950.

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

//Brassaï// Pigeons à Séville 1950. IFTTT Tumblr

Gyula Halász, or Brassaï – the pseudonym by which he has become much better known – is widely celebrated for his signature photographs of Parisian night life, and especially his book of…