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Conversation, Madrid
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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- 1950–1951
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Hungarian
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 27519d76-dae0-4b05-bb0f-ab66309b2e2a
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In 1950 Brassaï made the first of three trips to Spain, where he became fascinated with the social life, customs, and holy festivals in which women and men donned traditional costume. In his photographs he sought out universally human moments such as this study of two cloaked men in conversation on a street corner. Although their exchange is a common occurrence in urban settings, Brassaï managed to generate intriguing questions about what is really transpiring between them.
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