Streetwalker near the Place d'Italie from behind

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Streetwalker near the Place d'Italie from behind

Creator

Brassaï

Photographer · 1899–1984

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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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Date
1932
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
Hungarian
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
6b43c161-a5bb-4704-ae57-c7ecece91666

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