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French Riviera
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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- 1934
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Hungarian
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 2a5ec1bd-4789-4fdd-8749-4b4e65ffa52e
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After World War II, Brassaï photographed cities in the southern provinces of France--the Midi, Provence, and the Riviera--approaching these regions with the same curiosity with which he photographed Paris. Brassaï sought out those characteristics that gave each location its unique personality. While the beauty and serenity of the French Riviera appears in this image, Brassaï also thwarted expectations by focusing on the solitary figure of a man in a dark suit shielding himself from the sun with an umbrella, an incongruous, well-covered, solitary fellow in a mecca of sun-worship.
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