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Shrunken Head
Creator
BrassaïPhotographer · 1899–1984
All works by this person →After moving to Paris in 1924, Gyula Halász renamed himself Brassaï, after his hometown of Brasso, Hungary. In Paris he worked as a journalist and painter until around 1929, when he took up photography on the advice of fellow Hungarian André Kertész. A natural storyteller, Brassaï revealed his unscientific yet practical method of making exposures of Paris at night: *To gauge my shutter time, I wou
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- about 1932
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 1661f56e-0548-4c92-a397-132380cee732
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The photograph depicts a shrunken head, or "tsanta," from the Jivaroan tribes of Ecuador and Peru.
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